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Old August 20th 03, 12:25 PM posted to uk.transport.london
David Winter David Winter is offline
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Default Shielding 750 volt 3rd rail ?

"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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: Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
: In message , Arthur Figgis
: ] writes
: FWIW, you don't have to have overhead lines for electric
: trams - London had its conduit, and various places have
: had stud contact, including parts of the brand new tramway
: in Bordeaux.
:
: In fairness though, The Bordeaux system isn't open yet and
: the stud contact hasn't been proved to work successfully.
:
: But it has been used on previous systems I seem to recall (just don't ask
me
: when and where at the mo).
:
:
Marklin?

DW