A ONE-hundred-year-old relic has made its way to its final resting place after sitting in a Council depot for decades.
A section of the Broken Hill Tram was transferred from the Warnock Street depot to the Sulphide Street Railway Museum last week.
And it won’t be long before work starts on it, to get it up to exhibition standard.
In 2024, the curator of the museum, Christine Adams asked for the donation of the front part of the old tram carriage.
The original passenger tram carriage, in two parts, was donated around 1999/2000 by a station property owner to the Line of Lode Association.
This carriage dates from around 1900 to 1920.
When the Line of Lode Association wound up around 2003, this along with other items was donated to Council.
Over the years a number of options had been raised in relation to this carriage, ranging from disposal to seeking funding for restoration. However, no action was taken and the carriage continued to deteriorate.
“We just want to do something to remember the history of trams in Broken Hill,” Mrs Adams said in November last year.
“It will be a much simpler project to acknowledge the tram system.”
Mrs Adams had hopes that a bench with curved roofing will be saved, along with former tram doors and some track.
