Article: Derailed tram turns heads on freeway

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Way to go: a tram heads up the Calder Freeway for some special treatment in Bendigo. Picture: Peter Ward
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Derailed tram turns heads on freeway

Derailed tram turns heads on freeway
Article from: Herald Sun

Mike Edmonds

October 29, 2008 12:00am

SPEED cameras, radar guns, tailgaters and senselessly changing speed limits -- Calder Freeway regulars are used to them all. But not trams.

There were startled looks aplenty yesterday when a manky old, graffitied W-Class rattler was seen belting along the Calder towards Bendigo.

Travelling far faster than she ever did on rails, W-class number 785, still proudly bearing its "Toorak-Glenferrie Rd" destination sign, was making good speed on the back of a low loader.

Her rate of progress belied her 70 years, and got interesting reactions from slower vehicles as drivers looked in their mirrors and saw a ridgy-didge Melbourne tram from old route No. 8 bearing down.

The old girl was en-route to the Bendigo Tramways workshop.

There she'll be pampered, primped and preened before taking pride of place in the Bendigo tram museum.