Re: Re: A little bit of excitement in downtown Essendon

What a great shot.

Any motorman that could not detect the back end of his tram on the bitumen
must have been stoned, drunk or incredibly stupid. I used to scan the inside
mirror to see what the passengers were up to at least 3x a minute.

Bob Murphy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mal Rowe" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: A little bit of excitement in downtown
Essendon

--- demondriver44 <[email protected]> wrote: >
-G'day Mal,bet,given the time ,that he/she was

running in after the
PM peak in a hurry to sign off,did both axles
derail?I suppose they
must have to clobber the safety zone.Re R10,the
breakdown
vehicle,Yarra has it and apparently it is available
to rent by
Mtram,what a balls-up it is,dividing one system into
two.

A passenger (still waiting to finish her journey one
hour after the derailment!) said that the driver was
trying to race the lights.

Not only were both axles de-railed, but the grooves
the de-railed truck made in the road are over 1.5
metres to the left of the tracks - beats me how the
driver failed to notice the fact that the rear section
was running off at such an angle. Of course the
safety zone put an end to that.

I'm just glad I wasn't driving a car alongside the
tram!!

A second car also de-railed at the corner a little
later - possibly as a result of damage /debris from
the first derailment. Just minor, only got one axle
off and not very far.

Did find a pic of the scene taken a few years back by
Dave Macartney and printed in "Melbourne's Marvellous
Trams" by Budd & Wilson (UNSW Press, 1998). It
clearly shows the camber (against the lie of the
terrain) which Peter Cook mentions.



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