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

The Comet IIRC was the first AC diesel railmotor in Australia.
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Eric
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David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| Jonathan Lau wrote:
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| > 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!
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| It was 1939, but ISTR that there was one train in Victoria that just beat
it.  Was it the SOP?
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