Re: Tram spotted on L1
  TP

The best pre-emptive modification would be to replace these 19th century
four-wheelers with proper bogie trams. What's going to hold everything up
will be the blame game and we can look forward to a long wait for
apportionment of liability and neither side will want to back down.

Perhaps we should look at how the Besancon operation managed to get CAF to
shoulder the responsibility?

Tony P

On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 12:31:09 UTC+11a...@... wrote:

> Yairs indeed - many hands will be wrung, many pearls clutched before this

> is over.

>

> Between Birmingham and here there’ll be a lot of interest in what’s being

> done from other Urbos 3 users, and since the initial repairs done in

> Birmingham broke again they’ll want to understand exactly where and how the

> stress loads are causing the breaks, and many operators would, you’d think,

> be interested in what pre-emptive modifications can prevent it happening.

>

> I also reckon other builders of rigid truck articulated cars will be

> looking at their own products for potential problems like these. And

> despite claiming otherwise, I doubt CAF has got this entirely worked out.

>

> Tony

>

> On 27 Nov 2021, at 9:36 am, Mark Skinner eme...@...> wrote:

>

> I'm not sure that the physical repair might take long, but I can certainly

> imagine the paralysis in upper management. Questions like: "If we touch

> this, what does it do to our legal liability?" might take weeks...or months

> of wrangling between lawyers of all parties. The actual work for an

> individual tram might only take a relatively short time compared to legal

> riffle.

>

> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, 8:15 am Tony Galloway, a...@...> wrote:

>

>> Returning from walking with our dog at Petersham Park this morning at

>> around 8:20 I saw a CAF crossing the Parramatta Rd bridge.

>>

>> I was too far from it to see the number or if there was many on board, it

>> was moving at low speed approaching the Taverners Hill stop inbound.

>>

>> This is the first tram I’ve seen on the outer end of the line since the

>> closedown. I doubt there’s been time to do any structural repairs yet, so

>> maybe it’s been fitted with strain gauges etc so they can measure the

>> stresses around the cracks.

>>

>> Tony

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