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Re: how much to up grade braks on old trams
- Subject: Re: how much to up grade braks on old trams
- From: "no comment" <fuckDSGscum@magistrates-court.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:49:15 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- References: <3b0e95f0_3@news01.one.net.au> <HaCP6.534$Yr1.22022@ozemail.com.au> <3B0EF695.1EA5@iprolink.co.nzzzzz> <L3DP6.560$Yr1.23084@ozemail.com.au> <3B0F0173.7035@iprolink.co.nzzzzz>
- Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:37794
well thats a fair bitof info thanks
how much is one of those babys going to cost?
"David McLoughlin" <davemcl*PISSOFFSPAMMERS*@iprolink.co.nzzzzz> wrote in
message 3B0F0173.7035@iprolink.co.nzzzzz">news:3B0F0173.7035@iprolink.co.nzzzzz...
> David Bennetts wrote:
>
> > With new trams coming into service soon, it'll be interesting to see
whether
> > services are run at improved frequencies, or they'll just withdraw the
older
> > Zs and maintain the status quo.
>
> The 100 new trams are supposed to replace all the Z1s and are part of a
> scheme to replace all post-1975 trams with low-floor trams by about 2025
> to comply with Commonwealth disability laws. But with fleet numbers so
> tight and a slowly expanding system and better services, I suspect some
> of the Z1s won't be rushed into premature retirement. They are hardly
> old in tram terms. Such places as Basel, Bern and Gothenburg keep their
> trams at least 40 years. In fact the trams the Z1s were based on,
> Gothernburg's M28s, are still running and they are 10 years older than
> the Z1s.