Re: Melb (AUS) W-class trams

["Leon Kernan" <lkernan@hotmail.com>]

Well, just a guess but i'm sure i'm not the only person who prefers *not* to
ride on them.

David McLoughlin <davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Chris Gordon wrote:
>
> >
> > Yarra Trams *hope* to get their City Circle trams in service by
Christmas
> > (they are all currently at Preston Workshops).  The rest of the W class
> > trams are expected back by March 2001.
> >
>
> Holy hell, we are most certainly not talking rocket science here. The
> newest W is 1040 of 1956 and that was 1936 technology, years before
> rockets or even computers were invented.
>
> The brakes on the Ws worked perfectly for decades until some bizarre
> modification in the 1990s which made them unsafe.
>
> What on Earth is going on?
>
>
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand