Re: [NSW] K-set window mods

["Glenn J-B" <grjb@optushome.com.au>]

> The original K sets were known as Series 1 and the motor cars are numbered
> C3501 to C3504. These are now used on the short north with driving
trailers
> (D4096 to D4099) to make two car sets. These were the original
experimental
> a/c sets. I don't know how they were painted prior to the city-decker
> scheme,

They had windows similar to what the second series cars have/had, but the
horizontal section you pulled open was much thinner than is current.They had
a locking horizontal clip like on the previous beclawat windows. The
prototype cars C3501-C3504 + C3350 and associated trailers were the only
suburban cars I know of to ever have carried the sticker "Air Conditioned".

> Only five cars have had the window mods: C3509 and its trailer T4175,

C3509 is paired to T4213, T4175 is paired to C3517 and have been since the
1980's.

> Series 3 K-set motor cars are numbered C3550 to C3580 with corresponding
> trailers T4216 to T4236.

C3551-C3580 and pairs T4217-T4246 were introduced as force ventilated cars
with normal beclawat opening windows. They were subsequently modified in the
mid 1980's (?) to their current standard. C3580 is now with T4243, T4246 is
with C3577. C3550/T4216 entered service with the same windows as C3501-C3504
and pairs D4096-D4099.

Glenn