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The Perth trolleybus system in Western Australia linked the capital Perth's central business district with its inner suburbs on the northern side of the Swan River. It was the first permanent trolleybus network to open in Australia, in 1933, and also the last to close, in 1969.
In November 1981, the association split into two societies; the Bus Museum of Western Australia and the Perth Electric Tramway Society. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Having initially stored its collection in Bellevue , in 1990 all were relocated to Transperth 's Trigg depot before a permanent move to Whiteman Park in April 1993.
The first high frequency bus route in Perth was the 950, running from Morley bus station (now Galleria bus station) to Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre via Beaufort Street, the Perth CBD and the University of Western Australia. This route started operating on 27 January 2014, replacing several existing routes and allowing people to go from the ...
The Metropolitan (Perth) Passenger Transport Trust was a statutory authority of the Government of Western Australia from 1958 to 2003. From 1958 to the mid-1990s, it operated bus and ferry services within the Perth metropolitan area.
Perth provides zero-fare train trips for SmartRider (travel fare card) holders around the city centre (the "Free Transit Zone"), as well as five high-frequency (every 8–15 minutes) Central Area Transit (CAT) bus routes (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Purple), which, alongside trips on regular Transperth buses in the city centre, are free to all users.
The Tramway Museum, St Kilda operates an extensive fleet of historic South Australian and interstate tram cars and trolley buses. Work began in 1958 with the arrival of donated vehicles, the first of which was an old trolley bus from the Municipal Tramways Trust, and the museum was opened in 1967 as a static display. [43]
The trams came from Perth (11), Melbourne (8), Fremantle (4), Adelaide (2), Kalgoorlie (2), Ballarat (1) and Brisbane (1). [8] The trolleybuses all come from Perth . [ 8 ] Because the society's tramway is standard gauge , West Australian trams have had to be regauged from their original narrow gauge when restored for operation.
Buses in Perth, Western Australia, are operated under the brand Transperth.The Public Transport Authority of the Government of Western Australia tenders the provision of bus routes in Perth to private operators; [1] privatisation of Transperth services began in 1993 and was completed in July 1998.