Re: Re: CityRail Playing with its R sets

[Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com>]

The one Sean saw was R32--the only pocket rocket remaining in sector 3.
Sector 1 still has around 2 of them.

The interesting thing is that of all the Comeng motor cars there are on
R32, all of them are series 1--a total of 3 "series 1 Comeng" motor cars
out of the 4 (the other is a Goninan series 4).



Dave Proctor got bored on Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:14:25 +1000 and so wrote
the following:
 
          "Sean" <doctornick@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
          395eafd3@news.iprimus.com.au">news:395eafd3@news.iprimus.com.au...
          > 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