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Trivia: Victorian double-decker trains?

(Stephen Furley) wrote in message m...
"Alan J. Flavell" wrote in message . gla.ac.uk...
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, BH Williams wrote:

[excessive quotage now snipped]

I was only four or five at the time and much more interested in the
seats which had backs that could be folded according to the
direction of travel...

Sounds like me as a toddler on the rare occasions I was taken on
Birmingham trams. Where can we see one of those today? We never
actually went to the terminus (Rednal, IIRC), and I was fascinated by
the idea of changing ends and reversing the seat backs.

But they'd been abolished before I was paying proper attention.

It was a great pity that none were preserved

Doesn't the Black Country Museum have a tram from that part of the
World on its system? I seem to remember that they ran on track of a
narrower gauge than standard, but I can't remember what it was.

Many of the modern trains on New Jersey Transit have reversible backs.

3'6". It also has the authentic bumpy Black Country track!

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