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Re: CPH Railmotors
- Subject: Re: CPH Railmotors
- From: "f.u.i.t.b.e.t" <fuitbet@yahoo.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 08:32:48 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- References: <i5rQ6.25697$hV3.33562@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <eZHQ6.127$Lh6.19223@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net> <GCVQ6.2507$Yr1.110366@ozemail.com.au> <j3e8hts2tcj3uhca1ete2r0epe5amjsng2@4ax.com>
- Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:38380
P=power,H= guards compartment,F=second classB=first class,A as the second
letter =sleeping,R =buffet....but then I suspect the codes started to change
probably in the late forties or early fifties
"Dave Proctor" <david@spambait.proctor.net> wrote in message
news:j3e8hts2tcj3uhca1ete2r0epe5amjsng2@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 30 May 2001 08:45:30 +1000, "David Bennetts"
> <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> >So could the P in CPH stand for petrol? If you look at the carriage
> >numbering for the old single deck Sydney electric power cars, introduced
> >around the same era, they started with C for control. If P was for
power,
> >wouldn't the electric cars use P instead of C.
>
> Except for the fact that electric cars don't supply their own power,
> whereas diesel cars do. Also, the DEB set power cars - PF and HPF -
> were diesel from day one, as well as power cars providing HEP power -
> PHS, PFH, PHN, PHA, PHV, PHO and PHG type cars.
>
> Dave