page_title: Tramway Museum, St Kilda
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hierarchical_section_title: Tramway Museum, St Kilda / Scope
caption_attribution_description: English: First electric tram in Adelaide – on display at the St Kilda, South Australia tram museum.
context_page_description: The Tramway Museum, St Kilda is Australia's principal museum of the 19th and 20th century trams of Adelaide, South Australia. It is situated at St Kilda, 24 km north of the centre of Adelaide. Most of the trams operate when rostered along a 1.6 km purpose-built track that runs between the museum and a large adventure playground.
context_section_description: The museum is operated by the Australian Electric Transport Museum (SA) Inc., a not-for-profit volunteer organisation affiliated with the Council of Tramway Museums of Australasia. It is dedicated to the study, restoration and operation of trams and trolleybuses that were used in Adelaide or built there. It  is one of very few transport museums in the world holding at least one example of every principal tram type to have been in service on a city street system. 
  From an initial collection of five trams stored on a vacant site at St Kilda in 1957, the museum in 2019 had twenty-six electric trams, two horse trams, a tram-hauled horsebox, four trolleybuses, and a diesel bus of the type that operated when the street tram network was closed in 1958. Museum features include an entrance gallery, bookshop, archive and interpretative displays. Maintenance and construction facilities include two workshops, a wheel lathe building, ancillary storage sheds and a "travelling workshop", a former Melbourne W2 class tram.
  Staffed by volunteers, the museum relies mainly on visitor admissions to fund its work. Major projects are supported by donations from museum members and occasional grants from South Australian Government museum assistance programs and the Salisbury Council. The council crucially secured funding from a 1972 state government unemployment relief scheme to lay a 1.6 km (1.0 mi) tramway from museum site alongside St Kilda Road towards the sea, and to erect poles for overhead wiring.
caption: A type tram no. 1 Adelaide's first electric tram is one of 26 trams at the museum
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