G class testing

[Tony Galloway]

Found on YouTube :

Happy New Year

Tony

[TP]

Quite a lot of wheel-track noise, but can't hear the motors/gearboxes. It will be interesting to hear it at full tilt. The nose swing is certainly wide with the bogies so far back, but I guess the kinematic envelope in Melbourne allows for that. I still think the bogies should be at the ends. I can't imagine that the body between the bogies would test the envelope that much.

How long will be the testing/mileage without passengers and with passengers take before homologation?

Tony P

[espee8800]

Fascinating videos.  Can't wait to see the bank up of trams when normal traffic on Maribyrnong Road on a Saturday morning occurs. Have seen on a view of my visits at least four outbound cars and three inbounds remembering that at this point the 57 and the 82 share the road.  Will be a bigger shemozzle than now unless, of course, they reduce the frequency because these are bigger trams. 

Hmm bigger trams eh, it's not easy to count seats etc., from the ground but it looked to me that the number of seats would be in the vicinity of a Z3. Bring on the standees.

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[Mal Rowe]

On 20/01/2026 15:23, espee8800 wrote:

Hmm bigger trams eh, it's not easy to count seats etc., from the ground but it looked to me that the number of seats would be in the vicinity of a Z3. Bring on the standees.

I count 54 seats on the attached drawing compared to about 38 on a Z3 as now configured.

Mal Rowe seeing a glass more than half full

[TP]

If a government were to reduce frequency in a large city with population growth of 1.5% per annum because lower-capacity trams are being replaced by higher capacity trams, its transport policy would have to be down in the absolute dregs. Let this be an acid test.

Tony P

[Andrew Highriser]

Between 1980 and the timetable change with the introduction of E class trams, service intervals were continually reduced, the worst cuts back in the 1900s. I can't see the introduction of the G class having any effect on service intervals. A few years ago the off peak daytime service was improved on route 82 to sensible levels. Route 82 will be one of the first to see G class trams, replacing Z class trams. It is quite exciting. 

If I remember, I will have a look online at the congestion David remarked about on Saturday mornings.   

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