Re: Corrugated rail?
  prescottt

This is a section that I presume has been virtually never been traversed by Hs. While bogie trams so cause corrugations over time, the effect of the Citadis is more immediate and marked I think. That's why they build well-reinforced track for such trams as in Sydney and Gold Coast. Is it the same in Melbourne?

Tony P
---InTramsDownUnder@..., <mal.rowe@...> wrote :

On 15/03/2017 1:45 PM, Richard Youl tressteleg@... mailto:tressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

As for Jetty Rd, corrugations were very much in evidence in 2003 and nothing but H cars could have caused them.


Here's today's pic of the rail in North Terrace, just near the station.
http://tdu.to/Corrugation_NorthTerrace_16Mar2017.jpg http://tdu.to/Corrugation_NorthTerrace_16Mar2017.jpg

It's quite hard to see corrugations, so I have fiddled with the contrast and gamma settings to make it a bit more obvious.
No telephoto this time, and you may have to hold your head at the right angle to see the pattern!

It seemed to me that the reserved track was better - and all the worst corrugations were in concrete embedded rail near intersections.

Mal Rowe - who thinks that Melbourne's crushed rock and bitumen treatment and the Sydney / Gold Coast flexible rail padding may reduce the problem