On 10 March 2010 14:43, Dudley Horscroft <transitconsult> wrote:
> I have received a query re whether any Melbourne trams still have trolley poles.  My thoughts are that the only possibilities are
> the Restaurant cars, the City Circle cars, and the Ws on 78/9.  Plus of course the Ws in storage (a recent email said there were
> about 200, which sounds a lot).
>
> Query 1 - are there any operational cars with poles?
>
> Query 2 - where are the stored Ws stored, and do they have poles?  Are they ever likely to re-enter service?

There's no trams in service that have trolley poles. All are running
with panto's. I think the last tram to run with poles was restaurant
tram 442.

Stored W's are at Preston Workshops and Newport Workshops. Most/all
of the long-term stored W's probably still have poles, but if they
were to be re-activated they would be converted to panto operation, as
well as have all the other modifications.