Dandenong - '70th anniversary'

[Matthew Geier]

A promotional video from Alstom about the Dandenong factory. A week or so I came across one about their heavy rail operations and it was notable for not mentioning trams. Seems they did a separate video about that side of the business so that's probably why the video about their train building efforts didn't mention the other aspect of the factory.

ALSTOM | Tram and LRV manufacturing | 70th anniversary of Dandenong

<https://youtu.be/1kieIL-p_uQ?si=KcAMJm-qHhZh8yTu>

[TP]

They've taken a leaf out of Bombardier's book by avoiding any mention of Commonwealth Engineering and making it look, in this case, as though Alstom did it all. Some may recall that a previous backstabbing NSW Labor government helped bring about the fall of Comeng by sending all its orders for double deck trains (following the first and best ones which were developed by Comeng) to Newcastle where they wanted to shore up votes. At least in that case, they chose another local company, not giving it to the Chinese like our current two-faced government.

Somebody should train that French bloke to speak clear English if he wants to work here.

Tony P

[bblun...@yahoo.com]

And it was another previous Labor government that decided that it would be even better to have trains built in China, rather than Newcastle.

Brian

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[Matthew Geier]

On 18/3/25 12:16, 'bblun...@yahoo.com' via TramsDownUnder wrote:

And it was another previous Labor government that decided that it would be even better to have trains built in China, rather than Newcastle.

And promoted at the time as a 'better deal for NSW taxpayers'.

Labor were so desperate (still are to a degree) to be seen as 'responsible economic managers' that they stabbed their core constituency in the back.

Mins is my local state MP, I don't think he's done anything for his local area except tell us we need more slum tower blocks.

[Mal Rowe]

Thanks Matthew,

The HK tram they show is in the form of the re-build done by UGL around 2013.

They replaced the ComEng builders plates with their own - a bit cheeky for a facelift.

Mal Rowe - very sensitive to "fake news" these days

[TP]

It was Goninan (later UGL) that gave us all the crappy double deck trains after the NSW government kicked Comeng off the job.  I remember the first ones where there was no view out of the top deck windows other than straight down to the ground below because the windows were at hip level. There's never been a good double deck train since the Comeng ones, especially the V sets.

Tony P