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Trams in Hobart
The Australian city of Hobart, Tasmania’s capital city, no longer has a network of trams operating, but it once had an extensive and popular system that reached the majority of Hobart suburbs. The Hobart tram network was established in 1893 by a private consortium known as the Hobart Electric Tram Company, providing Hobart with the first complete electric tramway in the Southern Hemisphere. Its fleet of double-decker trams were the only such trams in Australia.
The Hobart tram network was successful for much of the early twentieth century, but by 1960 it had decided to close the tramways in favour of electric-powered trolley buses. By 1968, the trolley buses had also been replaced in favour of a completely bus-based network. The Hobart tram network was the first in the southern hemisphere to be electrified, and was the first in the world to operate entirely double-decker trams. It operated on eight lines for 67 years, before it was replaced by a bus network operated by the Metropolitan Transport Trust.〔
In 2003 the Hobart City Council proposed a waterfront Heritage tramway, but never carried through the project, and in recent years various studies and proposals have been suggested for the reintroduction of trams to Hobart.
==History==
In the late nineteenth century, Hobart's population had risen over 50,000, but its area was little more than a square mile, and still had no public transportation services, although horse-drawn coaches were available for access to out-lying towns and regional Tasmania. Hobart had begun to grow and develop, and was slowly constructing the features and resources expected of a modern European city. By the late nineteenth century most major cities in Europe were developing public transport systems such as underground railways or tram networks, and the citizens of Hobart were calling for something similar for their town. Some Hobartians saw that a workable public-transport system was essential for economic growth, and had witnessed the positive benefits that such systems were bringing to the mainland capitals of Sydney and Melbourne, which had developed steam, horse and cable-powered public transport networks.〔
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