page_title: Trams in Perth
section_title: Horse tram
hierarchical_section_title: Trams in Perth / History / Horse tram
caption_attribution_description: English: The Old Treasury Building in Perth. At this time it was also used as Perth's General Post Office.
context_page_description: The Perth tramway network served Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, from 1899 until 1958.
context_section_description: According to one source, the central city terminus of the short lived horse tramway was the General Post Office, which was then located within the Treasury Building, at the corner of St Georges Terrace and Barrack Street. The outlying terminus was said by the same source to be in East Perth. However, it now seems that, in fact, there was never a horse tram provided for the carriage of passengers in Perth.
  Rather, there was – it is believed – a horse tramway which ran from quarries just north of the city to the construction site of Government House situated in St Georges Terrace. For how long the horse tramway survived is not known, nor its exact route, as information has not yet been found, although research continues. It is known, however, that a horse omnibus system did exist.
caption: The Treasury Building circa 1900–1910.
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