Re: (Syd) Cityrail from the outside in

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

"Mathew Quaid" <quaidy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Found this whilst poking around other websites...interesting reading from
an
> outsiders point of view. Never came to terms with the term 'Tangara"....
> http://www.nycsubway.org/asia/sydney/
>
>

Few things that need to pointed out that are slightly incorrect:

>Older carriages are not air-conditioned, but newer ones are. Four, six, and
eight car trains are run. Cars can be either powered (cab control) or
unpowered (trailer). Four car trains are C-T-T-C; six car trains are
C-T-C-C-T-C, and eight car trains are C-T-T-C-C-T-T-C. The reason that C
cars are required mid-train, is that the guards (conductors) are in the cabs
of the control cars to operate the doors

C-T-C-C-T-C only exists in R32 and three/four other R sets (in sectors 1 and
2). The rest are C-T-T-C-T-C

>Older cars are prefixed with C or T to indicate cab or trailer

C is really control motor

>When trains arrive a (legible!) automated PA announcement tells the train's
destination and station stops; it's done in a female voice using
concatenated speech.

It's not automatic unless the station staff set the DVA Console to be in
sync with the plasma screen controls.