The AET Trust has been very active in the past 3 months. We have put on a show and exhibition for the Heritage Festival, battled for the preservation of the only Street Tramway in Auckland, the Dockline Tramway and written multiple funding submissions to various local boards. Thanks to the valued support of the Western Springs Tramway we didn’t do it alone!
The Auckland Heritage Festival event entitled Mt Eden by Tram held staged by the Trust at the Mt Eden Village Centre during the week commencing 8th October was a great success.
It brought out the showman in everyone, the stage lighting, music, media and video components from the Trust’s collection and the tech crew running around on talkback making things work took the production values up a notch. It was a new and different way of delivering a talk about tramway heritage.
The event was staged to tell the story of how modern tramway preservation started and how it is now evolving into a craft, almost a science, or as some like to say – a black art.