Re: Old Timer on Sydney Light Rail

Craig Potter (mikado@rivernet.com.au)
29 Jun 1997 08:57:22 GMT

> 134S has been fitted with additional equipment to operate at the light
> rail voltage of 750 volts in lieu of the tramways 600 volts and equipped
> with a spare pantograph from one of the Museum's Berlin trams in place
> of the familiar trolley pole to enable it to operate under the SLR's
> rather unique overhead.
>
> 134S has been used previously in Sydney to scrub the Eastern Suburbs
> Railway in 1978 and 1979 before this line opened and also on the
> Sutherland-Cronulla rail line in 1983 after this line was re-railed.

So the next question is....when will we see an R or coupled P class running
down Hay st????