Re: [NSW] Sydney rollingstock

[Dion Williams <onamission@today.com.au>]

Dave Proctor wrote:

Dion Williams wrote:

> > > > Something I've been wondering about for a while, was this the first
> > > > introduction of the original Blue Goose stock?
> > >
> > > No - the first cars were delivered in 1970. They were converted in the
> > early
> > > eighties into the current DMT, DFT and DDT trailers.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > These original 1970s cars were the ones originally coded as U sets like
> the
> > single deckers.
> 
> I took the question as referring to the 1977 inroduction of V sets as the
> first introduction of Blue Goose stock.

That's what I meant. Quite a design innovation for the late 60s
considering how fresh they look today, and that at the time there'd
still be steam on NSW rails for a couple of years more. 

Dion