Parramatta Light Rail - Not there yet!

[Greg Sutherland]

2,522 · 55m ago

Because the light rail systems across Sydney and Newcastle are different they have to get bespoke parts for each..... Well done TfNSW.

[Tony Galloway]

But, but, but - standardisation doesn’t matter.

Just ask the “experts”.

What a farce….

Tony

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[Matthew Geier]

On 4/12/24 15:38, 'Tony Galloway' via TramsDownUnder wrote:
> But, but, but - standardisation doesn’t matter.
>
> Just ask the “experts”.
>

'We don't want to set prescriptive standards as we want the market to be
able to offer innovative solutions'.

TfNSW are the ideal customer :-)

Each vendor gets to supply systems full of parts only THEY can supply in
the future. Guaranteed future income.


The bogies on the Sydney Urbos 3 can not be put under a Newcastle Urbos
100 as CAF changed (for the better I hope) the electrical connections
between the bogie and the body. There may be mechanical differences too,
but the different connectors on the motors were some what obvious - so
even with in the supposed same model of tram, parts are not interchangeable.

I do not know if the 4 new Urbos 100s supplied to supplement the 12
Urbos 3 in Sydney have bogies compatible with the old Urbos 3 or they
have the  latest Urbos 100 interfaces, thus requiring separate spares
from their older siblings.

Given TfNSWs track record on 'standardisation' I suspect they are
different :-)


Given how long CAF are have been building Urbos 3/100s how did the
Parramatta variant end up with braking issues ?. Not the first time CAF
have built a 7 segment version or fitted traction batteries. There's
nothing new or unique there!

[Geoff Olsen]

You couldn't make this stuff up......

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[Tony Galloway]

“There’s a sucker born every minute” - P T Barnum.

Tony

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