Article is dated for early 2010, so I assume it was withdrawn in early 2010? When did this Lou fellow retire (trying to get an approximate date for the removal of 728 again)?

It's getting difficult to do recent research on tramcar movements, some get mentioned on TDU, others mentions end up elsewhere. The lack of a formal 'filing system' on TDU makes it difficult to trawl through (this is more Yahoo Groups though, not the fault of TDU itself).

On another topic, I'm trying to find out if my memory serves me correctly:
-When Adelaide ordered the Flexities, initially there were only nine ordered in 2005, delivered and in service in 2006-07;
-Then it became 11 (what year for order and delivery?);
-The last two years it's become 15 (don't know when ordered, two delivered in 2011, and two in 2012).

Hs were withdrawn en masse presumably in 2006 and 2007; I went to Adelaide in November 2005, which was post-line rehabilitation, but pre-Flexities.

Wikipedia's entry on the Adelaide Flexities and H cars looks like it was last properly updated years ago and is useless, and RailSA hasn't gotten to the trams yet (although placeholder articles do exist).

--- InTramsDownUnder@..., Mal Rowe <mal.rowe@...> wrote:
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> 728 was withdrawn in early 2011, but union leader Lou DiGregorio made a

> fuss and it was put back into service.

> See: http://www.tdu.to/123622.msg?sid=95152&p=3

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> Not long after Lou's retirement it was quietly withdrawn again. The pic

> I posted earlier was the last time I saw it - in May this year.

> There are some pics of it in service after its reprieve attached to:

> http://www.tdu.to/123786.msg

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