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Tramways Wanganui Trust are looking for volunteer tram drivers to help get the tram up and running for Queen's Birthday Weekend.
Trust chairman Kritzo Venter said the trust had about five volunteers already, but needed at least seven.
"It's a really unique form of heritage transport," said Mr Venter.
"It's part of Wanganui's own history. It isn't something we've recreated. It's older than 100 years."
Volunteers were needed for a number of jobs to keep the Tramshed running, and people with technical skills for repair work were wanted as well.
Mr Venter said the trust was expecting a "large contingent of visitors from the Federation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand".
"We're basically going to do trips for them and for visitors on the Sunday. That will be the opening," he said.
The trust would be running the tram on selected weekends.
"It's a different experience," he said.
"To have that form of transport live and being able to demonstrate that to visitors is a feature that other provincial cities don't have."
Only the big cities such as Wellington and Auckland had running trams, he said.
"It's an attraction."
The trust was working towards getting a license from the New Zealand Transport Agency to allow it to carry passengers, but it had to have volunteers before a licence could be granted.
It needed to be able to prove it could gather enough people to properly run it, Mr Venter said.
Anyone eligible for a New Zealand driver's license could apply to be a volunteer tram driver, although the experience wasn't quite the same.
"It's quite different than a car. It doesn't have a steering wheel.
"It's basically got a control level indicating the direction it needs to go."
Mr Venter said there were speed notches and an airbrake and handbrake system.
Anyone interested in seeing what would be involved in volunteering could go to the volunteer training sessions on Saturdays between 2 and 4.30pm.
If you would like to volunteer or need any more information, call Joe Yates at the Tramshed on 06 345 7034 or email tramwayswanganuitrust@gmail.com.