Re: Re: Peak hour at Royal park

The blue trains were called Harris trains. Yeah they had asbestos, big time.
When they retired them as a class, they renewed a couple of sets which were
real good cars but it cost too much to do and there was the asbestos hassle.

They also converted and upgraded some of the cars as unpowered country
passenger train sets. Again they were good cars.

I agree. I liked them better than the stainless cars. They didn't shriek
like the silvers. The noise was lower pitched and not annoying, to me. I
lived opposite the Broadmeadows railway line so was exposed to all of them
for years. The blues were the quietest, or least annoying. The red rattlers
didn't bother me at all, either.

Bob Murphy

----- Original Message -----
From: "groompg" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Peak hour at Royal park

. . .

When was it?

I'm glad that I visited Melbun (surely there's a shorter OZ
nickname than that!) before all the older suburban
(Gloucester??) stock disappeared. I liked it better than the
stainless steel stuff. I remember one trip in the older stock,
running atop a high embankment with some of the doors open
and none of the passengers batting an eyelash! I was too late
for the Red Rattlers, though I saw one or two (work service?) in
the yard near Flinders St Station (I think, next to a park?).

Didn't I read somewhere that the "blue" asbestos in the
Gloucesters was so dangerous that they buried the bodies
whole in old rock quarries when they were retired?





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