On 04/04/2024 13:38, TP wrote:
> Bob, a modern 30 metre tram should weight about 40 tonnes or so light.

> Add 200 or so modern, McDonalds-fed passengers to that and you're up

> somewhere north of another 15 tonnes. I believe the Melbourne E class

> is atypically heavy, so if you saw a figure of 60 tonnes, it could be

> a laden E class.


Correct.  The off9icial figures for an E are: Tare weight 46 tonne and
an allowance of 20.6 tonne of passengers.

So that makes it much the same tare weight as a Skoda 15T if we take
your axle load of 5.5 tonne and multiply by 8 axles: 8 x 5.5 = 44.

The C2 5 section Citadis is lighter with a tare of 40 tonne - but spread
over only 6 axles so the axle load is higher.

The Citadis uses an aluminium chassis and fibre glass body panels while
the E class is mostly stainless steel.

Mal Rowe