Re: Camden Trams

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"David Bromage"
> Tezza (tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au) wrote:
> > A couple of mates had a bet last night about the Campbelltown to Camden
> > trains. One reckoned they were actually trams. That was easy to disprove
with
> > a video, but even I remember that they used to call them trams. Does
anyone
> > know why?
>
> For the same reason as the Yass Tramway. A "tramway" is cheaper to
> maintain because you don't have to adhere to the same standards as a
> "railway".
>
> See previous discussions/flamewars over the legal difference between a
> railway and a tramway.

Except that it was definitely a railway.