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

[craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick)]

David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> writes:

>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?

Actually it was 1937. 8-) When the Comet was canned in 1989 it has been
running for 52 years providing superb service to the towns along the far
west line to Broken Hill.

I think the Sprit of Progress in Victoria was the train which beat the Comet
for the first airco'd train in Australia stakes.

Regards,

Craig.

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