Re: Tait Trains

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Ron BEST wrote in message ...
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>Gareth Lumsden <s9763278@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au> wrote in message
>Pine.SOL.3.96.990601145245.7015H-100000@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au">news:Pine.SOL.3.96.990601145245.7015H-100000@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au...
>> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Daniel wrote:
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>> > Can anyone confirm that the Tait trains were scrapped early due to
these
>> > trains being a fire hazard under the loop.
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>Bit silly, really, when you consider that Sydney had wooden-bodied cars
>running on its underground lines for about fifty years!
>
>Rgds
>
>Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST)
>
Chicago CTA banned wood bodied cars from subway but not L.

Paris metro ran wood bodied Sprague cars until April 1983.

At the time the Melbourne loop opened, "official" word filtered north that
the Tait cars were banned from loop. The filter filtered out whether it was
unions or administration or both which were "behind" the policy.

Coincidence of age, image, safety probable real reason, if not "official"
reason.