Corporate Body

Western Australian Government Railways and Tramways (1914 - 1922)

State of Western Australia

From

1914

To

1922

Functions

Public Utilities, Rail Industry, Regulatory Body and Transport

Alternative Names

WAGR (Acronym)

Reference No

Western Australian Archives ID: AU WA A581

Summary

The Western Australian Government Railways and Tramways was formed in 1914 when the Western Australian Government took ownership of the existing tram network from the private company Perth Electric Tramways which had been running trams in Perth since 1899. The existing railways department took on responsibility for trams and was re-named the Western Australian Government Railways and Tramways. In 1922 this department was replaced by the Western Australian Government Railways, Tramways and Electricity Supply (1922 - 1930).

Timeline

1879 - 1890 Western Australian Department of Works and Railways
       1890 - 1914 Western Australian Government Railways [1]
             1914 - 1922 Western Australian Government Railways and Tramways
                   1922 - 1930 Western Australian Government Railways, Tramways and Electricity Supply
                         1930 - 1946 Western Australian Government Railways, Tramways, Ferries and Electricity Supply
                               1945 - 1975 State Electricity Commission of Western Australia
                               1946 - 1949 Western Australian Government Railways, Tramways, and Ferries
                                     1949 - 1958 Western Australian Government Tramways and Ferries
                                     1949 - 2000 Western Australian Government Railways [2]
                                     1975 - 1995 State Energy Commission of Western Australia

Superior

State of Western Australia (1901 - )

Published resources

Resources

Osborne Park Tramways Purchase Act 1914, No.11 of 1914, Legislation, Government of Western Australia, 1914. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/num_act/optpa191411o1914385/optpa191411o1914385.pdf. Details
Perth Tramways 1899 - 1958. http://www.pets.org.au/pets10p.html. Details

Resource Sections

'Western Australian Government Railways and Tramways', in Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia, Western Australian Government, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/western-australian-government-railways-tramways-au-wa-a581. Details

Elizabeth Daniels

Created: 23 July 2019

EOAS ID: biogs/P006475b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006475b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260