Re: Adelaide tram refurbishment commences

["Michael Lewis" <mdlewis@bigpond.net.au>]

Shame!!!

However, I have read that in New Orleans they have made modern copies of
the St Charles tram - which looks like a first cousin of the Glenelg tram
- without the pantograph desecration.

Michael Lewis

David McLoughlin <davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz> wrote in message 39BDC4D7.7CCF@iprolink.co.nz">news:39BDC4D7.7CCF@iprolink.co.nz...
> David Bromage wrote:
> > 
> > A refurbishment program for Adelaide's trams begins today, when the first
> > two will be loaded on to trucks and taken from the Glengowrie tram depot
> > to workshops at Regency Park.
> > 
> 
> These trams are now 72 years old. Why don't they buy new ones?