Re: The New and Improved W's

That's basically true, even the majority of the crews don't want them back,
mainly because the doors are so slow in one man configuration and it's
difficult to keep any relation to a time table. With all the crap about the
brakes, whilst the slack adjusters were part of the problem, the problem was
never major on the City Circle cars because, the green W's had their brake
rigging modified for the ticket machines, located in the centre of the car
to one side, over balance the car and a counter weight had to put on the
other side, right where the brake rigging was!!!

Greg

Personally, I think there was an ethos in the old M&MTB that new is better
and W-class trams are distasteful old relics which do not project the

public

image they wanted. I think that is still the case with the successor
organisations. They are a lot more comfortable with trams which look

modern

than they are with traditional trams.

They have certainly been in no hurry to get them back on the road.

Whether those sentiments are consciously or sub-consciously held, their
actions on W-class trams over the last 20 years speak far louder than any
humouring rhetoric to the contrary which they peddle to the public or the
media when they are criticised.

Bob Murphy

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