Is there any real advantage in using these long, semi-flexible unpivoted point blades as against the old standard short pivoted and
inflexible blades? It must be a bit more costly to machine such a length of rail to produce such a long taper.

It is not as if trams take the corners at a high rate of knots - rather they still go around them slowly - the speed limit depends
on the ability of passengers to remain standing rather than making a smooth transition to a curve.

Regards

Dudley Horscroft
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder]" TramsDownUnder@...>
To: TramsDownUnder@...>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 6:16 PM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] The jinx strikes again [2 Attachments]

> On 11/08/2017 5:44 PM, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

>>

>> Mal Rowe - who seems to often come across minor incidents and wonders

>> if he is a jinx

>>

> I'm getting a bit used to turning up and finding an incident!

>

> Today it was a 'slightly' derailed E at the corner of Spencer and

> Flinders St.

> http://tdu.to/6022_SpencerSt_19Aug2017.JPG

>

> I don't know if the car was intending to turn (as a football special) or

> not, but it was just to the left of the actual rails - as you can see in

> the marks adjacent to the rail at left in the second picture.

> http://tdu.to/Points_SpencerSt_19Aug2017.JPG

>

> Soon after I noticed a line up of trams northbound on Queensbridge -

> then saw a B being towed north by another B - no photo that time.

>

> Mal Rowe - building a reputation

>