In addition to that previous photo that I posted of the SW6 in Chapel Street, here is a photo of W7.1022 climbing up the hill on the Latrobe Street Bridge on route 30, Telstra Dome's sign and the Bolte Bridge can be seen behind. Came out a bit better than the other shot IMO
It seemed from my two trips to observe W class workings, that the ones at Southbank depot seemed to be better presented than the Glenhuntly depot trams, also noted some green ones on route 35. Any particular reason why that would be so?
"The trains at Pennant Hills run roughly every half hour. Nobody in their right mind uses a service that shoddy. That so many do just proves how many dumb and/or desperate people there are in Sydney." - MrPC
"The trains at Pennant Hills run roughly every half hour. Nobody in their right mind uses a service that shoddy. That so many do just proves how many dumb and/or desperate people there are in Sydney." - MrPC
There are some fantastic vids of Citadis trams on YouTube, if you enter said search critera. Most of them are from Paris and Dublin, but they look awesome nonetheless.
574MWhite GuruJoined: Mar 15, 2006 Last Visited: Nov 30, 2008 Location: Shepparton
Of course, Melbourne is Unique. All over the world, our W classes were recognised. So many people come from overseas to gunzel and ride our trams. Malcolm is still selling in the movie shops ...
(with thanks to Clive Mottram)
We even exported a few of them, thanks to the wonderful Dudley Snell.
To Seattle:
(with thanks to John Smatlak)
To Memphis
(with thanks to John Smatlak)
Life is change, life is all a flux, a continuous flux of manifestation. We have discarded W2's and so forth, and moved on. ...
(with thanks to Hitachi Man)
We are unique in that we have always had both a rail and a tramway system.
(with thanks to dxcack)
Then, of course, we converted some of the systemic inefficiencies to *efficiency*
(with thanks to dxcack, again)
And of course, they meet, from time to time. Well, in a sort of a way
(with thanks to norgelberg)
AAnd we have always used them for advertising, mind you ...
(with thanks to Comengs)
Then again, sometimes, trams don't even need poles or anything else up to move along
Did I say pole? Hmmm. Sign of the times. When I grew up, trams had trolley wheels on the end of the pole, and the conductors used to go into the back cabin and grab the rope and steer the pole under the OH bridges and through frogs. None of this
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(with thanks to Lakeyboy, who got it from Vicsig, so thanks, CMG. )
Then again, it hasn't been a good year on the trams. Lots of rear-enders.
Adelaide is the place of Flexity's and development. The City Extension opened this year and there was welcome and fulsome coverage on Railpage Australia™.
(with thanks to 409)
There is a very lively watch over there in SA about the new tram tracks to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Semaphore and West Lakes. Adelaide is the next big growth metropolis for trams in Australia, I reckon, with Brisbane and Perth yet to get in on the act. Act? ACT had those stupid tourist "trolley " buses for a while, but have decided to stick with buses. That's what you get in a city where your house and land can cost you $750,000. The futility of it all.
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trolleybusracerDeputy CommissionerJoined: Dec 12, 2006 Last Visited: Dec 3, 2008 Location: St Albans Sydenham Watergardens Line
It seemed from my two trips to observe W class workings, that the ones at Southbank depot seemed to be better presented than the Glenhuntly depot trams, also noted some green ones on route 35. Any particular reason why that would be so?
Simple really Because a City Circle Livery one isn't avaliable so they use Green Ws instead
May 2008
Autumn, Cold and Wet. The Sprinters settle in with the Stony Point Line. The 1st Mulhouse Tram from France begin testing along Route 96. Overall a busy photographic month with Gunzel trips to Corio and Lara on the Geelong Line, Ballarat on the Western Line and Castlemaine and Kyneton on the Bendigo Line
Very entertaining presentation of trams there 574M!
On the topic of Adelaide and Perth being the next hubs for tram development, you can forget about the latter for at least four years. The labor gov't had promised tram routes to travel from the city to Subiaco and from the city to Alexander Drive (how it would get there I don't know as some of Fitzgerald St which becomes Alexander Dr is quite narrow), but now the Liberals have taken the election and they have promised nothing by way of PT.
Labor had also planned extensions to existing lines plus a new line that would eventually link up the airport.
We can thank our local rag and Liberal's smear campagin against Alan Carpenter and the Labor party for this.
penovChief CommissionerJoined: Aug 31, 2005 Last Visited: Dec 3, 2008 Location: By the shore of Bass Strait.
trams had trolley wheels on the end of the pole, and the conductors used to go into the back cabin and grab the rope and steer the pole under the OH bridges and through frogs.
No he didn't "steer the pole". He held the rope taut so that if the trolley wheel dewired the pole wouldn't go up with the spring and get tangled in the overhead, or get damaged by the overhead bridge. They used to do this where the tram crossed an electric railway line ( Gardiner, Kooyong, Riversdale, Glenhuntly).
penovChief CommissionerJoined: Aug 31, 2005 Last Visited: Dec 3, 2008 Location: By the shore of Bass Strait.
trams had trolley wheels on the end of the pole, and the conductors used to go into the back cabin and grab the rope and steer the pole under the OH bridges and through frogs.
No he didn't "steer the pole". He held the rope taut so that if the trolley wheel dewired the pole wouldn't go up with the spring and get tangled in the overhead, or get damaged by the overhead bridge. They used to do this where the tram crossed an electric railway line ( Gardiner, Kooyong, Riversdale, Glenhuntly).
penovChief CommissionerJoined: Aug 31, 2005 Last Visited: Dec 3, 2008 Location: By the shore of Bass Strait.
trams had trolley wheels on the end of the pole, and the conductors used to go into the back cabin and grab the rope and steer the pole under the OH bridges and through frogs.
No he didn't "steer the pole". He held the rope taut so that if the trolley wheel dewired the pole wouldn't go up with the spring and get tangled in the overhead, or get damaged by the overhead bridge. They used to do this where the tram crossed an electric railway line ( Gardiner, Kooyong, Riversdale, Glenhuntly).
angus42Chief Train ControllerJoined: Aug 27, 2005 Last Visited: Dec 1, 2008 Location: Around Kyneton-Melbourne
conductors used to go into the back cabin and grab the rope and steer the pole under the OH bridges and through frogs.
No he didn't "steer the pole". He held the rope taut so that if the trolley wheel dewired the pole wouldn't go up with the spring and get tangled in the overhead, or get damaged by the overhead bridge. They used to do this where the tram crossed an electric railway line ( Gardiner, Kooyong, Riversdale, Glenhuntly).
Hmm. I have seen "steering" attempted at frogs, when there had been repeated dewirements, while awaiting the overhead crew: once in High St South at Barkers Rd, into Barkers Rd; another time at Kew Post Office, to turn into Cotham Rd; another time when shunting at the Balwyn crossover; another time at the so-called Lonsdale St shunt, outside the State Library. In those cases the connie was out on the bumper, for maximum sideways pull. OHS would certainly not countenance such a position nowadays (nor should it), and there's a risk of metal fragments falling from the overhead and causing eye injury.
Sometimes it seemed to work, sometimes not. But I can attest, from my own observation, that it was occasionally done. Shunting at Lonsdale St has always been a cause of delay to other trams, so I can understand attempts to secure a smooth passage.
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