zt_function_and_engineering

=How do trams function?= From 1888-1940 the trams that were around at that time were called cable trams, they were called this because they were operated by a cable that was underneath the ground. From 1940 trams have functioned due to an electric cable attached on top of the tram. These sorts of trams are called electric trams.

The part of the tram that is crutial in its function is the electric cable, this allows the tram to do all the things that it can do now. The tram moves when the driver moves the peddle to go and to stop. On every road that the tram travels, there are stops on either side. If you want to stop the tram you press a button on one of the handle bar​s and the tram driver sees the light go on and he stops at the next stop for you. = = = = = = = = = How are trams engineered? = One of the latest trams whose window fram cracked was one of our newest trams. In the repairs, they had to take out some of the chairs to fix it. The trams that have been running across the network since 2002 have started to have cracks in their frames. The cracks have no risk to the passengers but it will require four to eight seats to be removed to repair the frame For the next two years four combat trams will be taken off the rail every two weeks so that they can get repairs done to them and there will be no cost to the goverment.

There is already two of the four Yarra trams that have been repaired and the third one is getting repaired. In April 2007, a note was given to the Public Transport and they said cracks have been found in five trams so they think they should be put for repairs as quick as they can be and that the goverment will pay for these five trams.

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