Re: [Melb] Swanston Trams Crash

[Chris <csinn@netlink.com.au>]

D. Lindstrom wrote:
> 
> It's not the classic W class trams that are at fault it's people. Swanston
> trams has altered the way that the brakes are maintained to save money. It's
> this alteration, the installation of slack adjusters,  that is causing the
> problems.
>     I also heard today from an eye witness that two Melbourne Grammar school
> boys ran across St Kilda Road in front of the Z. A master from the school
> raced over to them and asked if they were all right. He thought they had
> been hit by the Z.
>     Whatever was following the Z had no chance of stopping. The accident had
> nothing to do with the fact that the tram was a W.
> David L.
> Yes it did. The W class's brakes completly failed. If they had of worked he would no doubt have been able to stop. If it was a Z class the driver would have applied the track brakes and stoped in even less time. If people want heritage trams let them ride around a park on the week end with the kids in them, they are not fit for service. Are we running a modern tramway service that can get people to work and back or are we running a service for the sentimental tram gunzels?
> "Evad Rehtona" <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
> 3936f032@news.iprolink.co.nz">news:3936f032@news.iprolink.co.nz...
> > Chris Gordon wrote:
> > >
> > > From the news:
> > > ================
> > >
> > > Trams withdrawn
> > >
> > > Thirty old W-class trams have been withdrawn following an
> > > accident yesterday that left a tram driver with a broken leg
> > > and head injuries.
> >
> > Are the Yarra Trams Ws being withdrawn, too? Isn't there a particularly
> > bad W in the Yarra fleet that often has brake problems?
> >
> > And what about the City Circle?
> >
> > One assumes this will affect services severely as there aren't enough
> > post-1975 trams to cover all the scheduled runs.
> >
> > David McLoughlin
> > Auckland New Zealand