It was certainly a breakthrough for the image of trams in Australia and, in Melbourne, on a par with the refreshing Harris trains. But then they did silly things like try front door-only loading.
Tony P
On Friday, 17 January 2025 at 08:20:36 UTC+11 David McLoughlin wrote:
Mal wrote:> The Z1/2 were .... built between 1975 and 1979 and refurbished 20 years later between 1995 and 1999. The last was withdrawn in 2016 after around 40 years of service. (pic
attached)It is sobering for me to reflect that, as a child of Melbourne of the 1960s and 1970s brought up on the various pre-1956 W models, the Z1s were "my" new trams. And now all of them are retired, with perhaps one of them (111) in a museum. Fortunately, I am not a museum piece yet myself, despite being older than trams I always regarded as being new and enjoyed riding whenever in Melbourne.
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