Re: New Melbourne trams have fewer seats than the old ones but they're longer!

[David McLoughlin <davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz>]

Ted Gay wrote:

> How wide will the new Melbourne trams be?  David I think you are over
> looking that most European trams are built to a narrow loading gauge, even
> when the track gauge is 1435mm. They have 1+2 seating not the 2+2 used on
> Aussie trams, and then some of their metre gauge trams only have 1+1
> seating.

They will be 2.650 metres wide which compares with 2.67m for the Zs.

Some of the few seats in them ARE 2+2. Some are 2+1 and others  are, in
think the term is "transverse," ie the seats are side-on to the
direction of travel as was the case in the W2 saloons.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand