This month's TAUT has an item that throws some rare insight into the basic
cost of a tram. Pilsen is ordering a new fleet of Skoda 40Ts, which is a 30
metre design almost identical to the Melbourne E class. The price has
apparently risen 23% because of the current economic situation in Europe -
to $AUD 4 million per car. The discrepancy between this and the $10 million
label on a 24 metre G class car sort of puts it into perspective. I agree
about encouraging local manufacturing, but I have a problem with the extra
cost coming out of the public transport budget because it means you get
less than half as many trams for the money at a time when you desperately
need to replace old trams and/or increase the fleet - or less of some other
urgent public transport need.
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Tony P
On Wednesday, 10 August 2022 at 20:50:21 UTC+10 Mick Duncan wrote:
> Good one,Greg
>
> Cheers, Mick
>
>
> On 8/08/2022 4:37 pm, Gregory Robinson wrote:
>
> Yarra Trams got rid of route 69 so I guess F class would be out of the
> question.
> Adelaide had their F type.
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> On Monday, 8 Aug, 2022 At 10:25 AM, TPhistor...@...> wrote:
>
> When this thread started we didn't know what class the new trams were
> going to be, so we speculated that it would be F. Subsequently it was
> announced that they would be G class.
>
> Tony P
> (tripped up by the thread title himself)
>
> On Monday, 8 August 2022 at 09:30:14 UTC+10 trams4me wrote:
>
>> Was the F class designation for the new trams ever an official "thing" or
>> merely a gunzel affectation?
>>
>> All the official documentation refers to "G" class, thus named as "G" is
>> the seventh letter of the alphabet, the tram is seventh generation and thus
>> their numbers will be 7001 - 71xx.
>>
>> Yuri.
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