Local Government
Wanneroo
Region
Metropolitan
3499 Wanneroo Rd Yanchep
Heritage Area
Wanneroo
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1913
| Type | Status | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage List | Adopted | 07 Nov 2016 | |
| State Register | Registered | 16 Jun 1992 | HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument |
| Type | Status | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| (no listings) |
| Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | ||||
| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 25 May 1994 | Category 1A | |
| Statewide Railway Heritage Surve | Completed | 01 Mar 1994 | ||
| Classified by the National Trust | Classified | 06 Apr 1987 | ||
Refer to HCWA's Assessment Documentation of Places for Entry in the Register of Heritage Places.
The tram body has zinculume placed on the timber roof. Body is timber framed with lower sides clad with horizontal timber planking and the window line clad with galvanised iron cladding. Most of the windows on the sides have been replaced by aluminium framed windows but eh ends and doors still have original windows. Stonework (relocated from the old site in Boomerang Gorge) has been reused around the base of the tram. The early chimney was also moved. It is painted green, the colour it was in the first years of its park use. Only two remain, used jointly with a concrete floor between them and covered by an open timber frame with corrugated iron roof. Each tram has been set on a stone base, 12' x 18' high at the front and sides and considerably higher at the rear where the ground slopes steeply to the valley below. One tram has been adapted for sleeping accommodation, and the other for living. They stand in a pleasant bushland area with the ruins of a cultivated garden nearby.
Tram 57 is one of eight tram bodies transported to Yanchep in 1933 to be used as accommodation. It had been built in the Railway Workshops at Midland in 1913 in the first batch of trams to ever be completely built in WA. After initial use by sustenance workers it was soon used for general accommodation. By the mid 1980s only two trams remained due to bushfires. In 1990 the two trams were moved from Boomerang Gorge and the one that remained in the National Park was relocated next to Gloucester Lodge. There the tram was repaired including replacement of damaged 'roof sticks' (ribs). In 2004 CALM undertook the exterior restoration of the tram body and built a roof over the tram to protect it from damage by the weather.
Individual Building or Group
| Epoch | General | Specific |
|---|---|---|
| Original Use | Transport\Communications | Rail: Other |
| Present Use | Transport\Communications | Rail: Other |
| Type | General | Specific |
|---|---|---|
| Other | METAL | Other Metal |
| Other | TIMBER | Other Timber |
| Roof | METAL | Zincalume |
| Other | STONE | Other Stone |
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