Article: Adelaide's newest tram set to roll

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Adelaide's newest tram set to roll

Adelaide's newest tram set to roll

By Scott Bills

Updated Mon May 9, 2011 11:49am AEST

Adelaide has taken delivery of the first of four new trams from Germany, three years after they were ordered.

The tram arrived at Appleton Dock in Melbourne last Wednesday.

It was then transported to Adelaide and installed on the tracks in Port Road at Hindmarsh in the early hours of Monday.

Transport Department head of public transport services, Rod Hook, says the trams were ordered in 2008, but there had been several delays.

"There were some issues with the construction of them. There were some floods in Germany which impacted the product that was being built and they had to go back and start again," he said.