Pantograph failures eh?
I’m sure no-one thought of that. The first CAF wireless installation was in Zaragoza and it uses surface charging like at Westmead, this overhead thingy in Newcastle looks like they did a one-off for some reason.
I think that all that was considered with this line was that it is a gap filler to replace the railway, with the potential for extension not considered. If the line is extended they might give up the wireless operation as a failed gimmick and impediment to reliability.
One should always have hope...
And in the future the same for the PLR and George St, once the irrational aversion to overhead wires has faded and no-one cares any more.
Tony
> On 13 Apr 2024, at 19:56, 'bblunt3473@yahoo.com' via TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@...> wrote:
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> Apparently CAF is playing silly buggers with supplying support and spares to leverage getting the maintenance contract from KDH.
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> On Saturday, 13 April 2024 at 07:27:00 pm AEST, TP historyworks@...> wrote:
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> I can't read it, but I get the drift of what it's about. The project was undertaken without any long-term consideration of what happens when the line is extended one day. The service can't run all the way out to Newcastle Hospital, or wherever, stopping for 45 seconds at every stop. It will have to be converted to an OHW system. At the most, to avoid the humiliation of relinquishing the wireless section at the eastern end, they could convert the existing section of line to in-motion charging, with a charging point at the eastern terminus - like the Parramatta line at the western end. I guess, in fairness, they couldn't do this at the beginning as such a system needs a long wired section on which to charge and the present line is too short to do this. They must have thought that the present piece of wireless technology was a good interim solution - until such time as the proprietor of the technology runs out of spare parts.
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> Tony P
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> On Saturday 13 April 2024 at 15:42:34 UTC+10 Tony Galloway wrote:
> Yeah, they don’t make it easy.
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> I tried to post this, but the paywall blocked it.
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> I also tried putting the newspaper page you posted in photos, but the resolution was too blurry to read the text.
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> How long before sense prevails and some wire is strung?
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> Tony
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>> Dispute with Spanish maker leaves Newcastle tram laid up for two years https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/8589846/row-with-spanish-maker-leaves-newcastle-tram-laid-up-two-years/
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>> Dispute with Spanish maker leaves Newcastle tram laid up for two years
>> The trams are experiencing problems with their onboard batteries.
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