Fwd: FW: Another D car with an interesting travel history

From:	Dale Budd <dale.budd@dbas.com.au>

A week or so ago Mal raised the topic of car 3507, which went back to Germany to have repairs and to be the protype for modifications. The dates of its travels are in Destination Waterfront City.

One of the D2 cars was used by Siemens as a demonstrator in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in January 2004, in a diversion from its delivery trip from Germany to Australia. There is a little bit of information on Wikipedia.

The demonstration was unsuccessful from Siemens viewpoint because Kaohsiung ordered cars from CAF instead.But the question is, which car was it?  Some years ago staff at Preston Workshops searched their records but could not find the answer. 

Does anyone have factual information identifying it?

According to Vicsig, 5001 was the only D2 to run in service in M>Tram Livery, but that is not definitive information, and it arrived in Melbourne before the date of the demonstration.

Dale Budd