On Thursday, 14 December 2017 7:36 AM Matthew Geier -
matthew@... wrote—

What's more 'fun' is the Newcastle trams are apparently going to get delivered to Port Kembla too, as the Port of Newcastle doesn't have suitable Ro-Ro dock facilities. So off at the port south of Sydney and
truck them to the port north of Sydney.

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That’s interesting. I might even see them on the backs of trucks near Hornsby.

The last ‘tram’ I saw on the back of a truck near Hornsby was the original SPER Cadillac rail motor on its way back to the Richmond Vale railway near Cessnock. Noel Reed.

From:TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2017 7:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: GCLR 2 opening & New Canberra Tram

On 14/12/17 07:22,davibenne@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

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> Possibly could have saved on transport costs by towing it down behind

> the evening Xplorer service from Sydney. Or borrowing the steam tram

> motor from Valley Heights to tow it, that way it would only take a

> week to get there.


The required paperwork would have cost more than the road haulage costs :-)

One of the independent rail maintenance contractors moves their rail
plant around between jobs on the backs of trucks. Appears it's cheaper
to lift a Plasser tamping machine onto the back of a semi and take it by
road that to get a path to drive it self propelled between jobs.

What's more 'fun' is the Newcastle trams are apparently going to get
delivered to Port Kembla too, as the Port of Newcastle doesn't have
suitable Ro-Ro dock facilities. So off at the port south of Sydney and
truck them to the port north of Sydney.

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Posted by: Matthew Geier matthew@...>

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