I well realise that Yarra does not own the trams and struggled for years to get rid of all the non-W8 Ws, eventually succeeding a couple of years ago when they got rid of the Restaurant trams as well. It’s funny that nobody else has safety concerns about running them in the street.
I daresay that Yarra wasted no time getting rid of the Z1s from all their depots although I don’t know if any linger at Preston workshops but are sure to be resisting any attempt to allow any to run any on tours.
Being dumped on the ground at Newport is obviously better than nothing, but…
It is fine that the disposal of the surplus Ws is being handled efficiently. It would be even better if each was required to have a roof installed over it within six months of acquisition. Unfortunately I think few people realise how fragile roofs are without regular paint application when left out in the weather.
Richard
> On 2 Jul 2020, at 5:44 pm, Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:
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> On 02/07/2020 17:18, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder wrote:
>> It’s nice that people in the Met had a heart for older unusual trams and kept them tucked away here in there after they were really no longer required, which must have greatly facilitated many of them being available when museum groups developed to the point where they could accept these obsolete cars. I can’t imagine that happening much under private operators.
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> The private operators don't own the trams - they are a State asset under the control of VicTrack.
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> My experience (over the last 3 years) has been that VicTrack have been very supportive of heritage needs.
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> The process of re-purposing the 200+ stored W class trams included an offer to any tram museum in Australia to ask for what they wanted.
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> All requests were granted, but not all museums have been able to take what was on offer.
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> Some museums have asked for trams under the general public "Expression of Interest" process, and again (as far as I know) all have been offered trams.
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> There's no reason to think that won't happen as the Z3, A and B classes are taken out of service, but it will be a real challenge to museums to be able to take what's on offer.
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> Mal Rowe - still involved in the process - recovering spare parts (see pic) for the future.
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