Re: Tait Trains

[Gareth Lumsden <s9763278@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au>]

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Daniel wrote:

> Can anyone confirm that the Tait trains were scrapped early due to these
> trains being a fire hazard under the loop.

Not really, although it was a contributing factor.
Tait's ran through the loop for about a week before they were banned.
They were allocated to lines without loop services (and limited loop
services) prior to scrapping.  They were mainly scrapped because they were
too old, and slightly user-unfriendly.

Gareth.

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