Tag Archives: Melbourne

Slow boat from Germany – delivering Adelaide’s trams

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Marcus Wong

A long time ago I wrote about Adelaide’s Flexity trams and their Germany connection – well this is the story of how they got to Australia. The trams were built at the Bombardier factory in Bautzen, Germany. Government of South […]

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Lookalike Melbourne trams in Lisboa

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Marcus Wong

I recently found a familiar looking trams in an unexpected location, when reading about about a new tram order for the Portuguese capital of Lisboa. Railway Gazette has the back story: CAF wins Lisboa tram tender 19 December 2019 Portugal: […]

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Rerailing a tram with a front end loader

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Marcus Wong

Derailed trams aren’t an uncommon occurrence, but using a front end loader to get it back onto the tracks is – an activity captured by Вечерний Краснотурьинск in the Russian city of Krasnoturinsk. They provide the backstory here (via Google […]

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