Re: Tram Accident details requested
  Peter Bruce

Does anyone here have depot allocation lists? Looks a bit like 977 to me.

PB.

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 15:40, Peter Bruce p1.bruce@...> wrote:

> Car showing Kew Depot so quite likely running in, could have a bit of a

> gallop up and possibly derailed on a curve but I have to say that when

> running in I used to take curves really hard and I wasn't the only one and

> never felt close to coming off, Mick D for one would probably say the same,

> he never hung about. Splitting points a common cause of derailment and I

> remember a Camberwell driver going through the derail at Riversdale while

> running out to Wattle Park in the AM, 1976 that would have been. Pretty

> sure he was four axles off, virtually parked at the kerb. Anyway that Kew

> car has gone a long way so obviously going pretty fast.

>

> Regards to all TDUs and all the best for Christmas and the coming year.

>

> Peter Bruce.

>

> P.S. I never got off the road.

>

> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 11:55, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder <

>tramsdownunder@...> wrote:

>

>> Steve,

>>

>> I checked it on the TV and while the first digit looks more like a 9 than

>> an 8, the second certainly is 7 but the third is not clear anywhere.

>>

>> The side image below might give you some clue.

>>

>>

>> Richard

>>

>>

>>

>> On 19 Dec 2020, at 9:38 pm, Steven Altham steventrams53@...>

>> wrote:

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>> 

>> Do you know the number of W looks like possably 874?

>>

>> On Sat, 19 Dec. 2020, 8:45 pm 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder, <

>>tramsdownunder@...> wrote:

>>

>>> In the 1980s I recorded quite a number of TV news stories relating to

>>> trams and trains and am now preparing the first of these for a new video.

>>>

>>> The first, illustrated below, is when a W derailed on Doncaster Rd and

>>> ended up in a front yard.

>>>

>>> The second incident, also about which I can find nothing, was when there

>>> was a Car Ahead collision involving Z3 171 and 211 on the reservation in

>>> Mount Alexander Rd while working the route 59.

>>>

>>> Both incidents occurred in 1985 and if anyone has any details,

>>> especially the dates, that would be much appreciated.

>>>

>>> Richard

>>>

>>>

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