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  webDotWiz Train Simulator - Line News February, 2004
So have a look at what needs to be done to one of the Melbourne trams or you could try it on one of the U79 trams.
Melbourne B-class tram number 2003 with a familiar destination showing, "St. Kilda Beach" on the number 96 route.
For more information about Melbourne's famous trams, start with All About Melbourne Trams and there are a few more links in the recent additions section of the sites page.
www.webdottrainsim.com /linenews5-feb04.htm   (3070 words)

  
  D1 class Melbourne tram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The D1 class, or Combino (affectionately known as "Bambino"), electric tram operates in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The D1 class is a 3-section tram and can be found on Melbourne's southeastern and inner tram routes.
All D1 Class Trams have a traction braking controller with an integral deadman's trigger that the driver must release and reapply every minute.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/D1_class_Melbourne_tram   (322 words)

  
 Melbourne's Trams To The Millennium
Melbourne's tramway system, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere and the eleventh largest in the world, comprises 244 route kilometers of track operated by 517 trams of six classes, both heritage and modern, running on the 1435 mm gauge.
C class trams (Citadis) 31 trams, built in France in 2001 and numbered 3001 to 3031.
Melbourne's tram services are operated from eight tram depots, four of which are controlled by each tram company.
www.geocities.com /z_class/melbtram.html   (2131 words)

  
 Melbourne:Trams:Miscellaneous:Trains:AJH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Melbourne's trams survived a concerted blitz by the motoring lobby in the 1960s to rid Australia of its trams.
So while for some 30 years Melbourne was laughed at by other states for its trams, now the smiles are on the other side, for all cities are regretting their short-sighted actions, and some have gone so far as to start reinstalling light rail (e.g., Sydney).
The tram on the left is MMTB C class, originally built for the Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust (PMTT) as PMTT-45, reclassified as E-45 when taken over by the MMTB, and then further reclassified by the MMTB in 1928 as C-45.
www.csse.monash.edu.au /~ajh/trains/misc/trams/melbourne.xml   (1080 words)

  
 Melbourne's Decorated Trams.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
After these trams were withdrawn in 1986, 12 SW5 class trams 682, 721, 722, 726, 731, 738, 758, 760, 802, 806, 816 and 829 became Transporting Art cars.
As of July 1993 ten specially illuminated W class trams were in service in all over advertising schemes.
As the colourful W class trams were withdrawn from service, modern trams of the A and B classes were painted in advertising schemes, the first being B2 2014 in November 1990 advertising a new housing development in Port Melbourne.
www.angelfire.com /ca/austelec/decotram.html   (498 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Trams in Melbourne
Soon a Melbourne cable tramway system was running from the city to nearby suburbs, but as the city grew the technical limits of the cable tram system became apparent, and electric trams were developed for lines to more distant suburbs.
Melbourne resisted the trend, partly because Melbourne's wide streets and geometric street pattern makes trams more practicable than in many other cities, partly because of resistance from the unions, and partly because the Chairman of the MMTB, Sir Robert Risson, successfully argued that the cost of ripping up the concrete-embedded tram tracks would be prohibitive.
B2 class trams were built from 1988-1994, by Comeng, and later ABB Transportation.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Trams_in_Melbourne   (1699 words)

  
 Melbourne's Restaurant Trams
The original Restaurant Tram, number 442, was converted from a W2 class tram.
442, followed by 937, was waiting for the B2 tram to pass before shunting and unloading passengers at the end of its lunchtime journey.
The driver of 442 was waiting for the B2 tram on the right to pass by before departing.
austtrams.tripod.com /restaurant/restaurant.htm   (526 words)

  
 trams-icon of Melbourne
Trams car in from West Maribyrnong via Moonee Ponds as route 85, or from City as route 81, via Flemington Rd. During special events extra trams are run between City and Showgrounds as route 58.
W class trams are also used to operate most services on route 8 and 16, and some services on route 69.
Route 12 was operated by some A class and B class trams at one stage.
www.geocities.com /professoryao/tram.html   (3353 words)

  
 Assembling whitemetal kits- Melbourne Trams - The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains
For the moment trams are what I'm modeling, I can get the A, B, W, and Z class locally made by Weico kits from a city hobby centre and C and D class stuff is used worldwide so i have seen a few HO Combinos on the net.
Melbourne is also home to an extensive radial heavy rail system currently owned by one private operator but due to a fiasco with National Express pulling out, quite a variation in EMUs.
A, B, Z class: Older style Melbourne trams, still in regular and reliable service, some are being refurbised while the oldest are being scrapped to be replaced by the D class Seimens Combinos (3-section and 5-section) and the C class Alstom Citadis (again lots of plastic).
www.the-gauge.com /showthread.php?p=114413   (864 words)

  
 Issue 13: Bendigo Australia Trams
The scene of gold discoveries in the 1860s, Bendigo had grown to a become a rather prosperous town by 1887, and the city fathers felt that a tramway was required, for reasons of transport and prestige.
These Melbourne cars help to take some of the pressure from the Bendigo cars, as some of these cars are over eighty years old, and daily service can be quite a burden on these vehicles.
It is a fine example of vintage trams operating in their natural habitat; with enough for the enthusiast, but thanks to the on-board taped commentary, enough for the general visitor as well.
railnutternews.home.att.net /bendigo.html   (1111 words)

  
 Melbourne's B-class tram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Locally, it is referred to as a light-rail vehicle rather than a tram, and it does run on separate rights-of-way (former heavy rail lines) but it also performs street service.
Having mucked around with the tram numbering system at the introduction of the Z-class trams, our supremos couldn't resist doing it again for these ones.
The last tram, no. 2132, would be no. 1473 if the tram numbering system had not been changed at whim.
www.railpage.org.au /tram/b.html   (372 words)

  
 Street as Method: Mélanie Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The use of bricks as opposed to wood or iron in the bridge’s construction indicates that it was built by an emerging middle class.
The earliest cable tram in Boroondara noted by McWilliam (1978), was in 1885 and the first horse tram in 1890.
The progression from a middle class which constructed the original brick bridge to the present wealth of Boroondara demonstrates that the suburb became financially wealthier over time which correlates to the creek’s demise.
www.xcp.bfn.org /thomas1.html   (1470 words)

  
 OS H0 Model Tram Manufacturers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Kato's HO scale tram model is of a 4-wheel car of the type that was given to Hiroshima by its "sister city" of Hannover, Germany, in 1988.
There is a small range of moulded resin Prague historic trams (Ringhoffer etc.) which are also available as kits from TLRS On-line Sales.
Nr: 1101 Russian tram is red-yellow and Nr: 1102 is blue-white.
www.tramways.freeserve.co.uk /Models/Makersos/Osho.htm   (2597 words)

  
 our journal
Before venturing into the city of Melbourne, we spent one last night along the coast in the town of Anglesea and then rose early to sit on the beach in the Surf Capital of Torquay to watch the surfers and little kids training with the surf life-saving clubs.
Melbourne and Sydney are rival cities but we found it difficult to favor one over the other as they differ greatly.
Melbourne certainly felt more livable to us, and perhaps more Australian, as there seem to be fewer tourists wandering around.
www.brettandtina.com /journal/index.php   (22547 words)

  
 Show your city Tram cars - Page 2 - SkyscraperCity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sofia has expressed interest of procuring 100+ TMK 2200 (new trams), few other cities in Europe and USA are also interested for this tram, as tram has design features which could be accustomed to each customer - many practical designs and variable gauge system can be employed.
Trams in Europe are generally called streetcars in NA and except for SanFrancisco and Toronto and a few other small systems they are ussually only 1or2 km heritage/tourist lines.
Nope, the old W class trams were recalled then after a couple of crashes - they had to replace the braking systems and replace the trolleypoles with pantographs.
www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?p=4072063   (1279 words)

  
 blickpunktstrab.net Photos Current 29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Melbourne - the W cars are running again in normal service.
This view of Yarra Trams #2026 shows the "Mark II" version of Yarra's new colour scheme as applied to "B2" class trams.
It is more similar to the colour scheme of the Citadis trams than the earlier Yarra Trams scheme applied to "A" and "B" series trams.
www.blickpunktstrab.net /bs_current29_e.html   (445 words)

  
 Melbourne
Melbourne's tramway system is the eleventh largest in the world.
It comprises 241 kilometers of track operated by 477 trams of four classes, both vintage and modern.
Yarra Trams 2126, a B2 class tram from the 1990's, displays the new livery introduced in 2000.
www.photo-transport.co.uk /trams/melbourne/melbourne.htm   (117 words)

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