Tony's not saying it cannot be done, it's whoever made the official
statement saying that.
On Sun, 7 Jul. 2019, 9:38 am Geoff Olsen, gol80579@...> wrote:
> Tony, the statement was that High St is too steep for trams there was no
> mention of number of driven axles. If all wheels driven is overkill are you
> saying that Sydney got it wrong from 1908 onwards?
> Geoff O.
>
>
>
> *From:* Prescott lenkaprescott@...>
> *Sent:* Sunday, July 07, 2019 7:02 AM
> *To:* TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@...>
> *Subject:* Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Inner west light rail
>
> I can't recall Geoff, it was all calculated some years ago by the Sydney
> City Council transport team. It also needs to be borne in mind that, while
> it is possible to specify a tram to climb extreme gradients (like the
> Sheffield trams), this comes at a greater cost (typically all wheels
> powered) and this may not be warranted if there's only one particular grade
> in the whole system to deal with, so it's overkill. Thus the system is
> generally designed to enable operation by a fleet that has a more standard
> performance specification.
>
> Tony P
>
> On Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:08:04 UTC+10, Geoff Olsen wrote:
>>
>> How steep is High Street? I was working at Loftus today and drove a 1912
>> vintage tram (1111) up Army Hill which is a little steeper than 1 in 20.
>> Driving it back down was not too dramatic either considering that I had
>> friends and relatives as passengers.
>> Geoff O.
>>
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