Re: Melbourne (Aus) 80th anniversary of suburban electrification

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>]

David Bromage wrote:
> 
> Rod wrote:
> 
> > A tram is never a train!
> 
> But trains can run on tramways.


And trams can run on railways, and do so more often than you will find a
train on a railway.

In Germany, the trams in Karlsruhe and since 1997 the brand new tramway
system of Saarbrücken, run on main line railway tracks even using the
25kV AC overhead rather than the 750vDC overhead on city streets.

They are still trams, not trains.

Melbourne's route 96 and 109 trams run on former railway lines, but they
too are still trams.

The only place I can recall offhand where trains run on tram tracks is
one of the Buenos Aires (Argentina) metro lines where the trains use a
heritage tramway through a city street to get to and from their depot. 

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand