Re: [Trams] Grand Unions in Australasia

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

"David McLoughlin" <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in
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> I gather Balaclava Junction remains as a grand union because of the
> Victorian National Trust, the same body which has ensured several
> hundred W-class trams are rotting away in places like the old Newport
> workshops rather than running in places which would like to run them.

I don't know if the National Trust was involved with the grand union, but I
certainly remember a story in the local paper (I live about 2km from
Balaclava Junction) with Alan Brown saying it would be retained for heritage
reasons.

By my calculations, every curve except the N to E pair is used, anyway.


Daniel
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