Re: Re:[Syd] Original S10

["Bob Merchant" <bob.merchant@bigpond.com>]

Bill is right, the four motor cars were test beds for various manufacturer's
electrical equipment and bogies.  They served their purpose...

Regards,
Bob Merchant

"Bill McNiven" <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| >"trendy rechauffé" wrote:
| >>
| >> The original 4 Sydney Tulloch double deck motor cars only lasted a few
| years
| >> before they were stored and in some cases converted to trailers. I'd
say
| >> some of those cars were used less that the 4d.
| The Railway Rasputin II wrote in message
| <38CE28F6.2EE03CDF@fastlink.com.au>...
| >3 out of the 4 were converted but only one of these made it into traffic
| >now getting arround as T4799. The other two, according to my souce, were
| >converted but were scrapped.
| >3804 is at the RTM.
|
|
| OK.  The Tulloch 8DD set entered service late in 1968, and was gone by
about
| 1975.  For much of the time, only two or three of the power cars were
| available for service, and some strange compositions like 6DD + 2 Comeng
| ("sputnik") single-deck cars ran around.
|
| C3801 and C3803 became T4797 and T4799, and T4799 is still around.
Sometime
| around 1984, the futility of these conversions became apparent, and C3804
| was offered to the RTM.  BTW, 3804 was the first double-deck power car to
| operate in the world.  The trailers (T4839, T4840, T4843, T4844) from S10
| also seem to be still around.
|
| Even though these cars were definitely experimental prototypes, I think
they
| lasted longer in regular service than the unlamented Melbourne 4D.  In any
| case, 5/8 of the set is still in service over 30 years later!
|
| Rgds
|
| Bill
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