Re: CPH Railmotors

[Dave Proctor <david@sd3.mailbank.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