Posts Tagged ‘Comeng’

The train that flew from Melbourne to India

The Alstom factory at Dandenong has a long history of building trams and trains for the Melbourne public transport system, through predecessors Bombardier, Adtranz, ABB and Commonwealth Engineering. However they have also built rollingstock for the overseas market, such as these two Indian Railways WAP5 electric locomotives that left Australia onboard an Antonov An-124 heavy […]

Adelaide’s copycat trains from Melbourne

If you’ve looked at the trains in Melbourne and Adelaide, you might have noticed that some of them look quite similar. And it’s not just one type of train – but two! So what’s the story behind this apparent coincidence? The first coincidence The story starts in 1977, when the Victorian Railways called tenders for […]

Melbourne’s missed opportunities for low-floor trams

With hundreds of high floor trams still in service in Melbourne, and the oldest low-floor trams having entered service in 2002, the State Government is at risk of failing to meet the 2032 deadline for meeting the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport. However it didn’t have to be this way – there were many […]