Re: CityRail Playing with its R sets

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Sean" <doctornick@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
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> G'day
>
> On the 30th of June i was at penrith station waiting for a service up the
> mountains, i noticed a 6-car R set pull in going to emu plains, the
> differntce is with this set is that it had 4 power cars and 2 trailers, i
> dono if that is rare or not, but someone was playing with the R sets thats
> for sure.

Hi Sean - are you ANOTHER Penrith-based aus.railer?

The set you described - C-T-C,C-T-C - has been in general use for a while
now, and are colloquially known as "pocket rocket's" - since there have been
a large number of cars off for "conversion" to CityDecker's, they have had a
lot more motors than trailers - this was one way of getting them into
service.

Dave