Ice on the overhead wires did happen in Melbourne in the eighties
before the city became such a heat sink, especially near large areas of
open grass. It was more of an 'amusing spectacle' to me than a problem.
Andrew.
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 08:57, Roger Greenwood efftech@...> wrote:
> TP guesses that frost on the wires isn’t a problem in Australia.
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> Frost/ice on the overhead was an ongoing problem for Launceston trolley
> buses especially first thing in the morning.
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> Launceston experiences a wide variation of day/night temperatures leading
> to a night-time build-up of ice on the overhead. Various strategies were
> tried to deal with this issue including the fitting of cast-iron shoes to
> trolley buses on early depot runouts.
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> Roger
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> *From:*tramsdownunder@... tramsdownunder@...> *On
> Behalf Of *TP
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 January 2022 7:12 AM
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> *Subject:* [TramsDownUnder] Frost on the wires
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> I guess this is a problem we don't have to deal with in Australia.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm1djuD3Zzs
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> They do have treatments to clear lines of it but this tram presumably ran
> into a new lot while on a run.
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> Tony P
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