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Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?

Subject: Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 23:33:22 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
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Jonathan Lau wrote:

> If I recall, the Silver City Comet train (Parkes to Broken Hill) was claimed to be the first train in
> the British Empire to be air conditioned and that was in the 1930's!

It was 1939, but ISTR that there was one train in Victoria that just beat it.  Was it the SOP?



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