Re: Re: Most beautiful tram in Australia
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Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:51 AM
Rave too much on that kind of stuff?
That's what a lot of us are here for.
Hope you get a scanner soon, Peter.
Or come up to my place with some of those great old pics and scan them over
a coffee so you can post them to the group.
Bob Murphy
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 8:48 PM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Most beautiful tram in Australia
of them that I still think of often,great workmates,some very staunch
people,with the best connies you only used the rear vision mirror from
habit,you never really needed it,you had hardly stopped and ding-ding,you
are away again,seasoned travellers were off the running board and on the
footpath before you had come to a stand.Come to a set of points set the
wrong way and again before you had stopped there was a clatter as your mate
grabbed the point bar[from next the controller] and as you stopped, a clunk
as the points went over and before knew it two bells and we're away
again,with a good mate you never ran late and not early either.Unfortunately
it wasn't always like this but I have predominantly good memories of the
MMTB and my fellow trammies but regrettably very few photos.As to
Australia's most beautiful tramcar,for me a W2 with the original single
headlamp,sitting on newly reconditioned trucks with 28 inch wheels and if
you looked closely,a little plate on the axle box covers,BTH265P [or D],the
legendary British Thompson Houston traction motors.If you and your connie
walked up to the pickup point and, say 249 was waiting for you,happy bloody
days,it went like the clappers and it had straight cut gears,it made an
unholy racket especially in narrow,built up streets.A tramaholics
heaven.Tell me to stop if I rave too much.Regards Peter Bruce.-- In
TramsDownUnder@y..., Paul Nicholson <pn1@r...> wrote:
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That's what a lot of us are here for.
Hope you get a scanner soon, Peter.
Or come up to my place with some of those great old pics and scan them over
a coffee so you can post them to the group.
Bob Murphy
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 8:48 PM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Most beautiful tram in Australia
-G'day Paul and everyone else too,you are right ,we notice the trams butnot always the trammies,I was one of them for 10+ years and there are lots
of them that I still think of often,great workmates,some very staunch
people,with the best connies you only used the rear vision mirror from
habit,you never really needed it,you had hardly stopped and ding-ding,you
are away again,seasoned travellers were off the running board and on the
footpath before you had come to a stand.Come to a set of points set the
wrong way and again before you had stopped there was a clatter as your mate
grabbed the point bar[from next the controller] and as you stopped, a clunk
as the points went over and before knew it two bells and we're away
again,with a good mate you never ran late and not early either.Unfortunately
it wasn't always like this but I have predominantly good memories of the
MMTB and my fellow trammies but regrettably very few photos.As to
Australia's most beautiful tramcar,for me a W2 with the original single
headlamp,sitting on newly reconditioned trucks with 28 inch wheels and if
you looked closely,a little plate on the axle box covers,BTH265P [or D],the
legendary British Thompson Houston traction motors.If you and your connie
walked up to the pickup point and, say 249 was waiting for you,happy bloody
days,it went like the clappers and it had straight cut gears,it made an
unholy racket especially in narrow,built up streets.A tramaholics
heaven.Tell me to stop if I rave too much.Regards Peter Bruce.-- In
TramsDownUnder@y..., Paul Nicholson <pn1@r...> wrote:
Let's not forget the human side of Australian trams
and tramway enthusiasts
A year years ago the enthusiast honoured Carolyn Dean,
now retired, with the title of the most beautiful tram
driver in Australia.
And of the World's Greatest International Tram Driver,
Hugh Waldron. But he is known as "The Professor" at
his former depot, Kew.
And other colourful tramway identities.
My favourite was the French conductor at Malvern who
used to play his yo yo and perform a comedy mime
routine in between selling tickets.
He was written up in the paper a few years ago. Now no
longer with us.
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Paul Nicholson
PO Box 301
Mitcham Victoria 3132
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9873 4249
Web site: members.tripod.com/~pn1/index.html
ICQ: 46644092
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