Thanks to Andy, Mike "Typewriter" Schreibmaschiner, Brian, Greg and Graham for their quick replies and info. Now I can happily pass
on the details to my overseas querier.

Thanks again

Dudley Horscroft

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Lees" <graham_lees>
To: <TramsDownUnder>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Question re trolley poles.

> And there are four Ws running in Perth Electric Tramway Society tracks
> at Whiteman Park.There's others too, but I am not sure their state or
> their numbers.
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> http://tdu.to/329_PETS.JPG
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> http://tdu.to/393_PETS.JPG
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> http://tdu.to/441_PETS.JPG
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> http://tdu.to/1017_PETS.JPG
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> Bob Pearce will put me wise if there are more!
>
> Cheers
> Graham
>
> Dudley Horscroft 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?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Dudley Horscxroft
>>
>>
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