Re: Tram W?? No.676

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

David Langley <del@ancc.com.au> wrote in message
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> btab wrote:
>
> Snip
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> X2 676 has only one trolley pole as you correctly observed and it is swung
> round by the conductor every time that the tram reverses direction. Go to
> Ballarat and Bendigo for examples operating every weekend.
>
If you're very lucky! Every time I visit a vintage tramway in Aust, they're
running ex-Melborne W5s or later - usually trams that never ran on the
systems concerned, and which are very similar to the Ws still running daily
in Melbourne! Even Bendigo, which made such a huge fuss about keeping ALL
its Birneys! And they ARE unusual!

Ron BEST