Re: Melbourne, Christchurch

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:22:05 -0000, Andrew Young wrote:

All the resilient-wheel cars lost them in favor of steel
wheels between 1965 and 1970. I have never seen a good
explanation as to why. Does anyone know?

AFAIK, high maintenance costs on the type of resilient wheel
concerned.

So far as Christchurch is concerned, when the Tourist Tramway opened
on February 4th, 1995 it was regarded as the first new tramway to open
anywhere in Australasia for nearly 90 years. Since then, of course,
the Sydney light Rail line has opened and been extended.

Geelong, a completely new system, didn't open until 1912 and strong
arguments could be made for the Glenelg line in Adelaide and the
present Bourke St lines in Melbourne being "new tramways" by the same
criteria that would need to apply to the current Christchurch
operation, as Christchurch had a previous system.

there have been a number of truck replications done where no trucks
existed, something done elsewhere in the museum world only at Fort
Edmonton (Edmonton Radial Railway Society) Canada and at the Crich
Tramway Village (the new name for the museum better known as the
National Tramway Museum) UK.

MATA in Dallas, as a well as having a W2 and using W2 trucks under
their Stone & Webster car, have fabricated a new truck for at least
one car acquired without one.... I saw it under construction in their
carhouse on a visit to Dallas several years ago.

Cheers,

Bill


Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia

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