Dudley, The modernization made them less reliable, the original form was
reliable. I have just completed a re-design of the inverter for 358 to
make it reliable, so many parts to this modernization that were technically
bad.
On Saturday, 9 September 2023 at 19:45:55 UTC+10 Dudley Horscroft wrote:
> Adelaide's H class were built 1929 and many survived in service till
> 2006. This makes 76 years for the class. Up there with the w2s.
>
> Dudley
> On 8/09/2023 3:29 pm, Hal Cain wrote:
>
> And didn't W5/SW5 728 achieve 76 years? Built 1935, withdrawn 2011
> (according to Vicsig).
>
> Hal Cain
>
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 11:56 AM Mal Rowe mal....@...> wrote:
>
>> On 07/09/2023 09:37, Tony Galloway wrote:
>> > A 20 year working life is an example of wasteful planned
>> > obsolescence, inexcusable when longevity and repairability are needed
>> > more than ever.
>> >
>> I understand that the Melbourne assumption for trams being ordered now
>> is a working life of 35 years.
>>
>> Car 116 (see https://tdu.to/i/83505) entered service in September 1979
>> so has been in service for 44 years.
>>
>> Some of the Ws managed over 60 years; 646 managed 75 years! That was
>> due to budgetary restraints.
>>
>> Mal Rowe in a city where sweating the asset has a long history.
>>
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