Barcelona is Alstrom's toehold in Spain with the two currently separate lines in the city using Citadis cars dating from pre CAF Urbos times.

I sense the superb marketing of Alstrom here.  They virtually give the APS system to the city for the new line and then say to all the gullible rubes from other cities

"Look even Spain the home of CAF the major city uses ALstom LRVs and APS, you must select Alstom and APS for your wonderful city". I will bet TfNSW has all the latest brochures.

Greg

On 6/08/2022 11:16 pm, David Batho wrote:

> Thanks for that, David.

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> David

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>> On 6 Aug 2022, at 12:54 pm, David McLoughlin mcloughlin.dj@...> wrote:

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>> David wrote:

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>> > I’m guessing “APS” is the system used in Sydney?

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>> Yes. APS is French, "Alimentation par Sol" and literally means "ground feeding,"  for "ground-feeding power."

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>> In their English propaganda, they call it by a greenwash term,  "aesthetic power supply."

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>> I may be wrong, but I understand that because it is a proprietary system, only Alstom trams can use it,  so the CAF trams used on the Dulwich Hill line can't be retrofitted to get further north than Town Hall, where the overhead ends and APS starts for the run to Circular Quay.

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