On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Peter Frimberley wrote:

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:41:37 -0500, David Jackman
wrote:

"Bob" wrote in news:1158689984.356980.88880
@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Further to out thread of November last year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5301366.stm

Is there any further detail ?

The best question is "where is the depot?". Unless the plan is to dig
up Hyde Park (unlikely) an isolated Oxford Street tramway with steel
wheeled cars doesn't work.

Either run it as a 24 hour or near 24 hour service, with just a few
sidings here and there to drop a few cars out of service at night; plus
a ramp down to the Central Line, and trundle off to another ramp up to
the West London tram, and go to their depots once a week for a major
clean etc?

Store them on-street, and have some specialised low-loaders to cart them
off, broken into separate cars, for maintenance?

That, or maybe one of those very large university/medical buildings up
TCR way might fancy being rebuilt and could accomodate some sort of
fancy dual-level depot on the ground floor and basement?

I'm sure Dave would be only too happy to see this patch of ground dug up:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?z=19&ll=51...,-0.133955&t=k



Slightly more seriously, how about the Royal Mail sorting office on
Rathbone Place? Their carpark is almost exactly the same size as the
Therapia Lane building. I've no idea what's under it (apart from a defunct
Mail Rail station), but it's conceivable that you could have a two-storey
setup, with a floor of stabling (maybe even two, as mezzanines) and a
floor of workshops above it, linked by a lift, with the Royal Mail vans
parking on top of that. Could even synergise and run mail trams ...

tom

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