These additional goodies have a cost. Canberra light rail cost $59 million
per km, Newcastle $107 million per km and CSELR $175 million per km.

Here are some Canberra roofs:

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/5be6171f-0b4b-451e-8f96-c4b1f43f3b18/r0_0_1200_675_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg

Tony P

On Friday, 26 November 2021 at 16:19:25 UTC+11 Matthew Geier wrote:

> On 26/11/21 16:13, Tony Galloway wrote:

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> “A mechanical problem” - nothing to see here, move along now.

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> Must be more than one with it, though it seems to be the trams rather than

> the power switching as Matthew suggested.

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> I see they’re calling them Urbos 100s now. Wonder what the changes were

> compared to the Urbos 3s, apart from the batteries.

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> No difference at all, it's a marketing thing, 100 means 100% low floor, to

> differentiate it from the 70% low floor version of the Urbos 3 (it's now

> Urbos 70)

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> The Newcastle trams, being a later build than Sydney do have a few

> mechanical and software changes as well as being fitted with the ACR units

> - there is a gap on the roof of the Sydney cars where the ACR modules would

> go.

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> I've not been able to look at the roof of a Canberra car (Canberra is too

> flat :-), but there is a circuit breaker next to the driver labeled 'ACR

> control'. I assume there is a gap on the roof where the ACR kit will go.

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