Personalised Tram & Bus Scrolls on Canvas
Your destinations. Your memories. Hand-stretched in Australia.
Choose one of three personaliser styles below and we’ll turn your favourite places, lyrics or memories into a tram-destination canvas, just like the original Sydney and Melbourne destination blinds.
Start with a personaliser
Pick a style. Send us your wording. Approve a free proof within two working days.
How personalisation works
Traditional, Contemporary or Poems — whichever suits your wording best.
Email us your destinations, place names, song lyrics, vows or memories (around 14 lines works best).
We send a visual proof within two working days. Request as many tweaks as you like — no extra charge.
Printed on premium canvas, hand-stretched over kiln-dried timber in our Australian workshop, then shipped to your door.
Or explore the ready-made gallery
Not ready to design your own? Browse our gallery of over 150 ready-made tram and bus scrolls celebrating Australia’s iconic cities, suburbs, beaches, snowfields and sporting clubs — plus a growing collection of international and retro designs. Standard pricing: rolled canvas from $109 (small) / $199 (medium) / $419 (large); stretched canvas from $169 / $309 / $599.
Browse all 150+ tram scrolls →
A piece of Australian transport heritage
Tram scrolls — also called bus scrolls, destination scrolls or destination blinds — were the long cloth banners mounted on the front and side of Australian trams and buses from around 1910 through to the 1960s. Drivers wound them to the next destination using a hand crank, so every passenger could see where the vehicle was bound. Most were black-and-white roller-blind canvas; some Sydney tram routes carried coloured variants. They’re a quietly iconic part of Australian transport history.
Our reproductions stay true to the originals across three main layouts: Full-Line (Sydney style, all destinations the same height and justified), Contemporary (a modern variant with varied line heights for visual rhythm), and Centred & Underlined (the classic Melbourne and wider Victorian style). Each is typeset by hand to match the typography and spacing of the era.
Materials & sizes
Every tram scroll is printed on heavyweight 380gsm artist canvas using fade-resistant pigment inks. Choose stretched canvas — hand-stretched in our workshop over a kiln-dried timber gallery-wrap frame, ready to hang straight from the box — or rolled canvas, shipped in a sturdy tube for you to frame locally.
| Size | Stretched canvas | Rolled canvas |
|---|---|---|
| Small | $169 | $109 |
| Medium | $309 | $199 |
| Large | $599 | $419 |
Personalised orders: same sizes, add a one-off $50 design fee covering proofing and unlimited revisions until you’re happy.
Designed & hand-stretched in Australia
Family-owned · Premium artist canvas · Kiln-dried timber gallery-wrap frames · Australia-wide shipping