Statistics for Heritage and Tourist Railways in Victoria

ATR Statistical Information - 2010 calendar Year

Victoria has a large variety of Heritage Railways and Tramways. For example, alone of all the Australian States, we have three operational electrically powered tourist tramways, a cable tramway, the  units powered by a internal engine, as well as two static tramway museums at Bylands and  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 159. 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 602,000 patrons paid to enter our premises. This generated a turnover of $16.5M. To do this we employed 54 full time staff, 41 part time staff and were assisted by 1,866 volunteers.

We have 30 steam engines and 68 diesels on the operational  register.  (Note not all of these are operational at the one time). We had 18 electric train carriages, 251 passenger carriages, and 28 vans. We also had 110 freight vehicles and  44 trolleys. There were 11 railmotors. In addition to these numbers  there are  many other non operational vehicles in the museum fleets.

Our tramway members have some 124 tramcars in their  collections. Many of these are operational (46) and  range from the original early horse trams.  The tramway collections held by our members also includes horse,  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