The K-class trams were a single truck all crossbench design, with closed compartments at one end and open seating at the other operated on the
Sydney tram network. Withdrawals commenced in 1939. By 1949, only 1295 and 1296 remained in service on the
Neutral Bay
Neutral Bay is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Neutral Bay is around 1.5 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council.
Neutral Bay takes ...
line, being withdrawn in the mid-1950s. Two were sold as track scrubbers in 1959 to
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
.
Preservation
Two have been preserved:
Nos. 1295 and 1296 were preserved at the
Sydney Tramway Museum
The Sydney Tramway Museum, operated by the South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society, is Australia's oldest tramway museum and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It is located at Loftus in the southern suburbs of Sydney.
History ...
. However, 1295 was destroyed by fire during a vandalism attack in 2016.
References
Further reading
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Sydney tram vehicles