On 8/12/22 09:59, TP wrote:
> The only photo available online shows that the incomplete tram (more modules to come?) was delivered to Rydalmere Station within a construction compound.


They will be too long to ship by road as complete units.

CAF reassembled the Canberra trams in Port Kembla and shipped them overland to Canberra complete, but the Parramatta ones are probably too long for road transport and will be transported in 2 or 3 sections. They will be in 3 parts on the ship.

The Citadis were moved from Port Kembla to Randwick in two sections.

I assume doing final assembly at the home depot significantly lowers road transport costs as they become an 'ordinary' large load instead of a super sized special permit load.

I'm going assume CAF held the deliveries back in Spain and they haven't been warehoused locally for 12 months.

Any one see what state the depot is in currently ?

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> Tony P

>

> On Thursday, 8 December 2022 at 09:41:48 UTC+11mat...@... wrote:

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> On 7/12/22 21:57, Hunslet wrote:

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>> Where to, in the interim?

>>

>

> They had arranged some time back, a 'secret location' in Newcastle

> near the port. (Undercover, a warehouse, so they would be

> protected from vandalism.) They were some what paranoid after

> Canberra's first trams got attacked in the yard shortly after

> delivery, so were looking at enclosed secure storage sites.

>

> The first batch were supposed to arrive a year ago now.

>

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