Hi Matthew,

I'm guessing that your Brunswick friends live in West Brunswick and use the 55 - which has a staple of Z3s and B2s.

Sydney Rd (route 19) is now nearly all D2s - which are a little better than D1's in a seats per metre length rating.
The Combinos were always a poor design from a passenger point of view and the elimination of 8 seats to allow body bracing made them worse.
Lygon St does see D1s - as the route 8 service is shared between Brunswick and Malvern Depots.

I see in the press release which Alastair posted that routes 59 and 55 are listed as in line to see E class trams.
I'd still prefer a B on my 59 route but an E will be fine.

I'm not sure how having Es on 55 fits in with through routing with 8?
An E at the route 8 terminus at Glenferrie Rd would be a sight to behold.

Mal Rowe - in a Charleville where the local museum has a rail ambulance on display

On 6/05/2015 7:58 AM, Matthew Geiermatthew@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> On 05/05/15 21:50,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

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> > Capacity is the total carrying capacity of the tram. The number of

> > seats is pretty irrelevant.

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> Not when it's 'take the car down to Lygon street for dinner or take the

> tram'. So it's a choice between sitting in your car or standing in a

> seat deficient D1 tram, I'd recon the car will win every time. Before

> people cut in I know D1s are not seen on Lygon Street, but they are in

> Chapel street another popular eating street. My wife has friends living

> in Brunswick, every time we visit, it's lunch/dinner in Lygon Street

> some where.

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