Document - AM - Article, Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA), "Sydney's Light Rail Cars", June 1997

Document (collection) - Melbourne tramway information sheets in a folder, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), 1990s

Historical information

Article from an issue of April 1997 Transit Australia titled "Sydney's Light Rail Cars" about the construction of the Australian Variotram. Has notes about the tram itself, the concept, a elevation and plan drawings, bogie and drive, details of the Sydney version compared to Chemnitz, and OEG, manufacture, and design parameters.

Significance

Yields information the Melbourne tram system and demonstrates the type of information retained about the tramway system and other source information about new trams.

Physical description

Set of four sheets printed, stapled in top left hand corner

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