Very interesting insight into a tram work shop. Thanks tressteleg1💚👌👍
@ricardoaraozmoldes39702 ай бұрын
Admirable vuestros tranvías antiguos. Cuánta historia hay allí. Interesante esos talleres y depósitos. Saludos desde Tucumán, Argentina.👋😊👍
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
Many Thanks 👍😊 Greetings from Gold Coast, Queensland Australia!
@geoffreymoore15102 ай бұрын
Thanks for this tour from way back and I again appreciate the subtitles. I am currently getting ready to put up The Open Day and trips to and from Crows Nest Metro on 26th May 2024.
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
I’m glad you liked it. And good luck with your own upcoming postings.
@geoffreymoore15102 ай бұрын
@@tressteleg1 Will post you some lnks. maybe by tomorrow all three will be up. If sooner, will let you know. They are all done so ??
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
OK, when you are ready…
@dieseldavetrains89882 ай бұрын
A great pity that they didn't keep a decent number of "W" trams as a tourist attraction running in a circle style fashion through the CBD. I remember the distinctive "hum" of the "Z" class and the old pole type pantograph. Thank you for a great video, much enjoyed.😊
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
Well they did. 12 have been modified to become the W8 class. Amongst various bodywork improvements, their contactor controls were replaced with electronics and all of this cost a lot of money. Nevertheless Yarra chooses to run only a few around the City Circle in one direction only. I’m not sure why, but I suppose they just couldn’t be bothered running any more. Nevertheless the state government has let them do this.
@dieseldavetrains89882 ай бұрын
@@tressteleg1 That is good to hear, thank you for that information.
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
@@dieseldavetrains8988 Not really. Sooner or later they will find some excuse to run them less and less. In the past whenever they were short of drivers for a profit-making service, taking a City Circle driver was often done. There are no bonus payment available for CC trips. I suppose they still do that.
@brianmcgill73142 ай бұрын
I was working there during the time you were filming m8
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
👍👍
@hassansayyab11942 ай бұрын
Awesome video mate I remember the Preston Tram workshops depot with old Melbourne Trams with yellow and green stripes patterns. It’s gives me memories and great history before the new E classic trams take over 😊
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
Well all the buildings are still there. However largely it is just a tram depot with, I gather, minimal repair abilities.
@darylcheshire1618Ай бұрын
I once visited the Hawthorn (training) depot and saw the W class chassis showing the motors and controller, the reverser handle was thrown to show the arc-ing in a motor with cover removed. The reverser handle trick was shown to our group in a W class as it travelled towards the wall at the back of the depot. Apparently the depot was a site of a two pole short just outside the depot which killed two men working on the overhead wiring which had been turned off.
@tressteleg1Ай бұрын
Around the 1980s when demonstrating that ‘4th Emergency’ braking method one of the motors on the W2 underframe suffered a short circuit and the blown motor was never replaced, so as far as I know running the tram motors cannot be done. I can’t say I ever heard about workmen being electrocuted, but of course it may well have happened.
@darylcheshire1618Ай бұрын
@@tressteleg1 Something the instructor said.
@tressteleg1Ай бұрын
@@darylcheshire1618 Well I expect he would know.
@brianmcgill73142 ай бұрын
The man with the glasses is Norm Cross, He was very eccentric.
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
😊👍
@brianmcgill73142 ай бұрын
@@tressteleg1 I wouldn’t be surprised if the model teams were in his home. 👍
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
@brianmcgill7314 Unlikely. He had been in poor health for some time living in a nursing home and sadly passed away last week.
@Low7602 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video. I would love a similar video of north Fitzroy from the same time frame. Was this during the working week?
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
13/11/87 was a Friday evening. My daytime visit was obviously a weekday. By North Fitzroy I presume you mean the bus workshops. I never went there so somebody else may have something taken there, but I don’t like your chances.
@trevormaxwell81342 ай бұрын
We have boring buses 🚌 here in Brisbane city nothing else unfortunately 😮
@tressteleg12 ай бұрын
Yes I am well aware of that. I saw the last day of trams in 1969. You nearly got trams with Briztram but a major factor was influential shopkeepers getting it stopped on the grounds that they did not want to lose trade during construction.
@hassansayyab11942 ай бұрын
Do you me to send my video link to you so that you can watch it and ask me anything about my video in the comments thanks 😊🙏