Gallery

The Haddon collection in pictures and profiles — freely licensed photographs where the historical record provides them, and our own stylised profile artwork for the rest of the fleet.

Photographs

Green and cream W2 class tram number 407 running Direct to Begonias shuttles at Ballarat in March 2022 — W2 407 running “Direct to Begonias” festival shuttles at Ballarat, March 2022. Photo: Victransport official, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Victorian Railways trams 1 and 2 standing on the St Kilda to Brighton Beach street railway, early 1900s — VR trams 1 and 2 on the St Kilda–Brighton Beach line, c.1906–1915. Photo: Walter Hodgkinson, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The photographic record of the Haddon trams was built over decades by dedicated enthusiast photographers, and their work remains theirs — the enthusiast galleries on our links page are the place to explore it in depth. The images above are shared under a free licence or out of copyright, with credits below each.

The Fleet in Profile

VR 41

Victorian Railways bogie dropcentre car, 1923.

L 103

James Moore-built L class of 1921, restored to late-1950s style.

W2 357

The Holden Street Workshops’ last complete tram, 1926.

W2 407

The rebuilt survivor of a 1972 Chapel Street collision.

W3 663

Steel-framed W3 of 1933, under restoration.

W4 670

One of five wide-body W4s; first Haddon restoration.

W5 792

Near-original three-doorway W5 of 1937.

SW5 849

Sliding-door SW5 of 1940, back in operating condition.

Silhouettes are indicative only — not to scale, and liveries simplified. Each tram’s page describes its actual livery and condition.