Re: Railmotors

[ROY HOWARTH <rhowarth@tig.com.au>]

There were four 500-class trailers that ran with the CPH's up until 
Waterfall electrification in July 1980: 

FT.501, 505, 506 and 551. The last car was the matching trailer for CHP38 
(Creamy Kate) and so was slightly different from the other three, which 
used to run with 400-class railmotors. Their main conversion for 
Sutherland duties included removal of the side skirts and corridor 
connectors. 

As per prev note, they almost always did run as three-car "sets". I don't 
recall ever seeing CTH/CTC trailers on the Waterfall run - these more 
than likely saw use on the Abattiors/Richmond runs.

The best reference is the book "Rail Motors & XPT's" (c.1984 & out of 
print) for info on the CPH's and their matching trailers.

Roy H

"Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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>Chris Stratton wrote in message <754cit$m3v13@atbhp.corpmel.bhp.com.au>...
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>>They were CPHs and ran a lot of the time as CPH+CTH+CPH. The CTHs were the
>>matching trailers. I only have a few photos taken when electrification
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>>were underway between Loftus and Waterfall.
>>They was a collision at Waterfall when they wrote off a couple of the CPHs,
>>I'd have to look up a book to find the year.
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>They were often run as CPH+500 class trailer+CPH.
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>Barry Campbell
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