Re: Victorian Tangaras?

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

For the record, Four-D stands for Double Deck Development Demonstration 
Train and was built mainly to evaluate the viability of Double-deckers on 
The Met. Car numbers (for the driving trailer cars with pantographs) are 
6000T & 6002T (this is an incorrect coding - should be "D"), while the 
intermediate non-control motor cars are numbered 5000M & 5002M (should be 
"N" for Non-control, like the Sydney cars).

This train is only used on the City Loop, Belgrave and Lilydale lines as 
these are the only lines to have been altered to accomodate the 
height of the double-decks (the City Loop was built with the ultimate 
accomodation of double-deckers in mind). In the past it used to couple 
with Comeng sets in peak hour services.

While this train remains an orphan on The Met, plans for more should be 
dusted off in the near future as the early Hitachi cars become due for 
replacement (that's if Jeff & Robiin feel they can afford them!). 

Roy H