Statistics for Heritage and Tourist Railways in Victoria

ATR Statistical Information - 2007 calendar Year

Victoria has a large variety of Heritage Railways and Tramways. For example, alone of all the Australian States, we have four operational electrically powered tourist tramways as well as the static tramway Museum at Hawthorn Tramway Depot in Melbourne. In addition  to the tramways we have operational Heritage Railways of many gauges located right throughout the State.  Lest anyone thinks that we are a very small player in the tourism  and entertainment business, when we aggregate all our figures, you find that we are now a significant force in the State of Victoria.

We operate our trams and trains over a total length of track of 162. km. Unlike the commercial operators, we are fully responsible for the complete maintenance of this track. We operate over a variety of track gauges commencing with184mm, 610mm,762mm, 1067mm,1435mm, and 1600mm.

We run a large variety of trams and trains and some 572,000 patrons paid to enter our premises. This generated a turnover of $9.8M. To do this we employed 394 full time staff, 33 part time staff and were assisted by 1,778 volunteers.

We have 28 steam engines and 48 diesels on the operational  register.  (Note not all of these are operational at the one time). We had 9 electric train carriages, 194 other passenger carriages, and 26 vans. We also had 122 freight vehicles, 37 trolleys, and 17 other railed vehicles. There were 18 railmotors and 4 buses.

Our tramway members have some 121 tramcars in their  collections. Many of these are operational (70) and  range from the original early horse trams.  The collections held by our members also includes  cable, and electric trams operating in their native towns. There are even some of Melbourne's modern trams in the collections. The statistics does not include the Historic government trams located at the Government's Hawthorn Tramway Museum.

Victorian Figures in a Nut Shell