>On 27 Nov 97 11:27:50 GMT, "Krel" <krel4203@netconnect.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>SAR had random numbers that began at either 00 or 30 (is an 830 a
>>derivative of an 800? What about a 930 and a 900?)
>The old SAR system is relativly simple.
>Both locomotives are simlar in role, the for the 830 is sort of like
>the 800 and the 930 is sort of like 900.
>
>When the 900 class was introduced in 1951 the 500, 520, 600, 620, 700
>to 750 class steam locomotives were still in servace and there were
>plans for a 800 class steam lcomotive to replace the 500 class. When
>the 930 class was introduced in 1955-56 thay fulfiled a simlar role to
>the 900 so ther for the 930 class.
>By the time the 800 class was introduced in 1956 the plans for the
>steam 800 class had been droped so it filled the next space in the
>number sequence, again the 830 is like 800 so its number.
>When the 500 class was introduced ('64) the 500 steam class had been
>with drawn so it filled the position, same with the 600 (1965) and the
>700 (1971) classes.
>
>>CR has two or three random letters that sometimes were the same as the tea
>>ladys initials. Road numbers is a bit of a disaster - some classes begin at
>>1, some begin where the last class left off, and some seem random (DE90,
>>NSU51, NB30 etc)
>>
>>--
>>Cheers Krel
>>
>>The Law of Inverse Proportions - The chances of the signal clearing
>>without having to get out of the cab and go to a lineside phone is inversly
>>proportional to the amount of rain falling at the time :-)
>>
>
sorry
David Chester
(chester@chariot.net.au)