PRO: Port Adelaide Tramline | $260m

[Xaragmata]

Ongoing preparation of Southwark Bridge for new beams and deck for tram line - Saturday:




Site works near Entertainment Centre terminus.

[UrbanSG]

Thanks for the pics.

It is a real shame they didn't underground the high voltage powerlines. It would have looked so much better if they had, especially once the project is complete.

[Xaragmata]

Thanks for the pics.

It is a real shame they didn't underground the high voltage powerlines. It would have looked so much better if they had, especially once the project is complete.

That high voltage line feeds the Hindley Street substation (and maybe others). It might become redundant when the ElectraNet
underground cable & Keswick substation start operating from 2011.

Substation is mentioned in the World Park thread
http://www.sensational-adelaide.com/for ... =worldpark

[UrbanSG]

I think you might be right.

I found this map showing the route of the underground cable from the Electranet website. Surely the other lines will be removed. That would explain why they are staying above ground for now. Well I hope so anyway.

[Wayno]

wow! that probably means all cabling will be undergrounded along Port Rd. Hope so! it will look sooo much nicer...

[AtD]

I don't think the power lines on Port Road are not to do with Electranet. This is their net work as it stands:


But I might be wrong!

[Xaragmata]

I don't think the power lines on Port Road are not to do with Electranet.

But I might be wrong!

You are not wrong - the 66kV (?) lines along Port Road belong to ETSA Utilities, and they do feed Hindley Street substation, which will be
connected to City West via Whitmore Square substation... The section from Southwark Bridge could be made redundant, but the "North
Adelaide Tee" also tees off there along Park Tce & Fitzroy Tce to (somewhere) and needs to remain. A complicated network & ownership.

The "tee" stands out in this pic of the tram works on Southwark Bridge ... (on topic tram bit)


Lot of details about City West here http://www.electranet.com.au/getprojectfile.php?id=49

The tram extension on Port Road will finish just in time for ElectraNet to do its dig for the cable in 2010.

[Xaragmata]

Cranes on Port Road railway bridge ready to insert steel beams for tram line on Saturday (probably done by now)

[Pistol]

Thanks for all the updates Xara.
Keep them coming

[Alyx]

Sorry if this is in the incorrect thread, but the first of Adelaide's new Citadis trams from Madrid was delivered to Preston Workshops in Melbourne yesterday. There are three photos of it's delivery taken by user pigmeat in the RailSA Flickr group.

[Alyx]

Sorry if this is in the incorrect thread, but the first of Adelaide's six new Citadis trams from Madrid was delivered to Preston Workshops in Melbourne yesterday. There are three photos of it taken by user pigmeat in the RailSA Flickr group. Ian Green also posted this photo of it alongside former Adelaide tram H368 on Vicsig.

[Shuz]

Thanks Alyx. I just had a look for myself - I gotta say, they're fucking sexy as. I hope they'll retain the blue/white/red livery on them. I think it's a good fit - very "Australian". I'd hate for them to be brandished in the god-awful Adelaide Metro livery.

(c) Pigmeat - Flickr

[Xaragmata]

Not as interesting as the new tram perhaps, but some pics of the Port Road rail bridge with beams in position:

[rev]

Thanks Alyx. I just had a look for myself - I gotta say, they're fucking sexy as. I hope they'll retain the blue/white/red livery on them. I think it's a good fit - very "Australian". I'd hate for them to be brandished in the god-awful Adelaide Metro livery.

Current livery isn't that bad, it would look a lot better though if it was more then just straight lines.

[AtD]

Thanks to Xaragmata and Alyx for the photo updates.

I would wager that the trams will sport the AdMet livery before they enter service.