Re: W class trams (was: Millennium Metcards (was: [VIC] R.I.P. Metcard Xpress??))

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Better still the best handfull of each class could be selected, the
rest sold to willing (read rich) international purchasers and the
money donated with the trams to various existing tramway museums, even
relocate ONE to the city if it seen as appropriate, rather than having
underfunded, underresorced centres dotted all over country Victoria
(Ballarat and Bendigo are excluded from this, they are in the right
spot).

Daniel Gerrard
"The history of our future can only be found in the preservation of
today"


On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:31:51 +1100, James Brook
<ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>Sam Eades wrote:
>
>> Do you think that the national trust would let them do those modifications?
>
>All the National Trust has succeded in doing is to have the remaining W class
>trams placed into storage where they will rot away slowly. What is the point of
>this? The National Trust should salvage the components from these trams to
>restore a few W class trams properly and then run them on special occasions. It
>is better to have a few properly restored W class tram than a stockpile of
>rotting shells.
>
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>- James Brook -
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