Re: Re: Adelaide Tram Update
  Greg Sutherland

Interesting point here is that Dublin has avoided the additional capital
cost and maintenance burden of operating coupled sets of shorter trams
to deal with growing patronage.

It would appear that Dublin, an informed buyer, has told Alstom that
unless Alstom produced a longer tram they would go to either CAF or
Siemens for their higher capacity single unit trams as both these
suppliers had provided such trams to Budapest, again an informed buyer
of trams.

Obviously the Alstom high pressure (expert??) sales team had their bluff
called.

LUAS like a number of european operators has used the 'add a module'
technique to extend the length of many of its current Citadis trams.

Greg


On 15/07/2018 5:51 PM, Mal Rowe wrote:
> On 15/07/2018 5:22 PM, Dudley Horscroft wrote:

>> While Adelaide has Spanish trams, my nephew, currently in Dublin,

>> reckons that the Dublin trams are suspiciously like the Bumblebees in

>> Melbourne.  Is there a family connexion between the Bumblebees and

>> the Dublin trams?

>

> Yes - both Alstom Citadis.

> Luas also have some later models of Citadis trams.

> The latest are super long!  See:

> http://www.alstom.com/press-centre/2017/11/alstoms-citadis-trams-arrive-in-dublin-from-la-rochelle/

>

>

> Mal Rowe - who quite likes the Melbourne 5 section Citadis trams

>