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Re: Melbourne's grey trams

Subject: Re: Melbourne's grey trams
From: "Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:04:47 +1100
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Brown Family wrote in message <38c6d95d.6578784@news.ocean.com.au>...

>I think the most revolting livery I ever saw was the "Candy Stripe"
>colour scheme used on NSW locos and carriages. Was there anything
>worse than this? Was it a vain attempt at making aging rolling stock
>look more modern?

Agreed - there were actually a number of proposed schemes, and I reckon they
picked the worst of the lot. The best one that I saw (of the proposed) was
similiar to the British Rail InterCity livery.

Dave

References:
- Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: "David Martin" <d_martin@mountains.net.au>
- Re: Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>
- Re: Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: "Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>
- Re: Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)

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