Gday  Richard,All

Assertive driving in the 60s was the only you would get through
Camberwell Jcn
in the peaks quickly before the traffic lights came

Creep up,gong, creep up again,gong hiss,just keep moving slowly till
the cars got out of your way.The poor old controller copped a few arcs
unless you cut the second notch before cutting off so the linebreaker
would open before the controller copped the the cut off arcs

Some times it got so bad the Braid acted as Cop till a Cop arr from Camb
Cop Shop,most Cops gave the Trams a fair go

When in a narrow St at lights,with parked cars on the other side,and if
you were a bit late when every second counted,I watched the lights of
the intersecting road and when the lights on the other street went
Red,count 4 seconds and take off,the tram would be moving just as the
Green came up and beat the cars trying to pass you as one would try to
pass you and maybe do a right turn in front of you

The 4 second rule still applies on many lights

Other tricks to keep time were to release and apply brakes,hiss hiss, to
hurry pass at stops and cut a notch against the brakes to wake up a slow
Connie

Working with a good Connie,we did a shunt in 20 sec

Those were the days

Can any other Drivers share their tricks to try and stay on time

Cheers,   Mick

On 19/03/2024 8:21 pm, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder wrote:
> Nevertheless most Sydney drivers are ‘Nervous Nellies’. I have encountered just the odd one who would drive as assertively as myself. Incidentally I Never had a fall on any tram I drove, but did not muck around either.

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