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7 unusual facts about TransAdelaide


Flexity Classic

In 2006, TransAdelaide now Public Transport Services (PTS) as part of DTEI began to replace the H class cars operating on their Glenelg tramway with a fleet of eleven Flexity Classic trams.

Millswood railway station

The ticket office was demolished during August 1985, and the original shelters were in due course removed in March 1988 and replaced with the 'bus' type shelters that are seen at some stations on the TransAdelaide network.

Municipal Tramways Trust

The STA was renamed TransAdelaide as part of the state government's privatisation programme of the 1990s and is now limited to operating Adelaide's tram and train services.

South Australian Railways

The Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority, which was incorporated into TransAdelaide in 1994.

TransAdelaide

Formerly operated by TransAdelaide, all of the class have been replaced by new Bombardier Flexity Classic low-floor trams.

The tram line had undergone a major A$71 million overhaul in 2005–2006 with new Bombardier Flexity light-rail vehicles replacing the aging H-type trams which had been in service since 1929.

In 2006, TransAdelaide began to replace the H-class cars with a fleet of eleven new low floor articulated trams – the Flexity Classics, built by Bombardier in Germany.


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Kilburn station

Kilburn railway station, Adelaide, a TransAdelaide station on the Gawler railway line


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