Re: [NSW] some history (w set correction)

["trendy rechauffé" <trendy_rechauffe@start.com.au>]

Dave Proctor <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> Hubert Lam wrote in message <84nl5k$afq$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
> >Just looking for some history of how State/CityRail marshalled suburban
> >trains before 1994--I remember seeing something about that "R" sets were
> >different and all that (plus some info on things like "W" sets...I never
> >really got a chance to get on a red rattler...apart from a repainted
> Tulloch
> >car!!!)
>
> Aaaaahhhh - the red rattlers. I remember them (showing my age now)!
>
> Basically (and open to correction from those in a better position to
know),
> the single deckers were targetted based on their depot - so there were
> (originally) F, B, H and M sets for (respectively) Flemington, Bankstown
> (Punchbowl), Hornsby and Mortdale depots.
>
> Upon the introduction of the new carriages in the mid-50's (single deck
> interurban and "sputnik cars) these cars were allocated the U and W
> allocation respectively.
>
[snip]

The single deck sputnik cars were actually targeted S (for suburban) when
they entered service.

bye tr

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