Re: Batman Avenue Trams Finished!

["Jim Leppitt" <leppijlk@virtual.net.au>]

While travelling home on the spark tonight, I noticed the scrubber (11W) was
heading east on the new track at approx 17:20. We paced it from the
intersection with the exhibtion St extension down to the points at the loop.
No doubt trying to get some of the construction vehicles muck off the rails.

Jim

David Langley wrote in message <3753A46B.1FCECC44@ancc.com.au>...
>Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:
>
>> I am only 20, so they are older then me.  But now they have low level
>> platforms the Z's can't be on route 70.  Already I have been told there
>> have been some swaps of Z for A from Zew depot.  So Camberwell will have
>> no Z's.  Kew will have a few to run on route 34. (La Trobe st shuttle)
>
>I think that Camberwell has had only a few for quite a while, certainly
since some As came over
>from Kew.
>
>> I always through it was stupid boarding by the front door and off the
>> back.  It worked sometimes but during bussy times it didn't work and
>> took far too long.  (don't worry I spent 6 years catching them each day
>> with a sitted conductor)
>
>Well the system worked reasonably well in the early days but I think that
public behavior
>standards have fallen nowadays and rude people with no patience just push
on through any door
>thus preventing the passengers who wish to alight from doing so. And the
stupid ticket system
>that no longer requires you to enter at the front to buy your ticket can
also be held to blame.
>
>> Didn't Swanston Street have some sort of platforms at some time?  Hence
>> the reason that the VR trams couldn't run down Swanston Street (they were
>> too wide)
>
>Hmm, don't think so but perhaps someone else can verify.
>
>David.
>