Re: [NSW] "The River"

[Robert Harris <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

V sets are a similar set up to K and C sets, they need the power and
trailer car to run.
rgds

David Johnson wrote:
> 
> Erk wrote:
> 
> > All you needed to say is that it was a 4 car V set instead of a 2 car set.
> > Also, cars are not rostered according to the colour of their front end. The
> > trailer cars with cabs on this service were specifdically upgraded for
> > services of this type and can work with any older V set power car (and maybe
> > the chopper V's, not sure on this one - they maybe semi permanmently in
> > pairs like the Garbages).
> 
> I understood the description to indicate these were the older Blue Goose driving
> trailers, which are now trailers.  The car numbers would have started with DDT,
> DFT or DMT.  The upgraded driving trailers all start with DTD.  They are
> permanently coupled to their partner, a DTM.  They do not have knuckle couplers
> between them - they have a bar coupler.
> 
> > It is very unusual to have odd numbers of cars.
> 
> I'm not qualified for V sets, but I imagine that they cannot run with odd
> numbers of cars.  K & C sets must run as even sets, because the pantograph is on
> the trailer cars, and each 2 car set is semi-permanently coupled.
> 
> --
> David Johnson
> trainman@ozemail.com.au
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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> These comments are made in a private
> capacity and do not represent the
> official view of State Rail.
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