Re: Melbourne E Class Order Completed
  Mal Rowe

Well done!

You are good at finding the sunshine!


On 04/10/2021 12:00, Yuri Sos wrote:
> E2.6100 rolled into service on Friday 1 October 2021, completing the order for these 100 Bombardier-built Flexity Swift-based trams.

>

> Because of lockdown, I exercised in St Kilda this morning.

> It's spring in Melbourne which means "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes".

>

> Dark clouds scudding across the sky with bursts of sunshine at all the wrong times made photography a little challenging.

>

> E2.6100 heads along the Esplanade on route 96 nearing the terminus in Acland Street:

> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2021/6100_esplanade_a7r3_15626.jpg

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> E2.6100 returned a short time later bound for East Brunswick, the clouds breaking up, but no sun:

> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2021/6100_esplanade_a7r3_15751.jpg

> {2,000 x 1,250 pxl; 1.65MB}

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> Finally, I decided I needed to take my exercise at Clarendon Street Junction and was rewarded with E2.6100 arriving in a patch of sunshine:

> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2021/6100_clarendon_a7r3_15813.jpg

> {2,000 x 1,250 pxl;2.01MB}

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> Yuri.