Re: [NSW] Pocket Rocket (was 8 car C set)

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

I thought there were 40 chopper set cars ie 5  cars sets.

rgds

Bill McNiven wrote:
> 
> Hubert wrote in message <7vdv0l$5in$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
> >Speaking of CTCCTC (6-car "pocket rockets"), it seems that R32 is the
> remanining one
> >in sector 3. all the others have had Tulloch cars fitted back on to them.
> >>Ashley Wright wrote:
> >>>   You will probably find that any 6 car "s" sets are really made up of
> >>> an S set (4 cars) and an L set (2 cars).
> >>>
> >  As somewhere else asked are 6 car 'S' sets a Hornsby thing. In the
> >few years I lived in Sydney commuting on the Illawarra line I never
> >once seen a 6 car 'S' set. All 6 car sets were either R's or S+L
> >combo's.
> OK, in theory the Sydney set compositions are:
> * 'C' - Goninan cars with chopper control - generally six cars C-T-T-C-T-C
> but sometimes eight cars (because a total of 56 cars exist).
> * 'G' - four car outer suburban Tangara D-N-N-D
> * 'K' - Goninan cars with heating or air-conditioning
> * sets K1 - K4:  C-D
> * the rest: C-T-T-C
> * 'L' - two car sets C-D
> * 'R' - six car sets C-T-T-C-T-C
> * 'S' - four car sets C-T-T-C
> * 'T' - four car Tangara D-N-N-D
> * 'V' - two, four or six-car Intercity sets
> 
> The 'C' and 'K' sets are theoretically never used on Illawarra (Sector 1)
> services.
> 
> Just to confuse, the meaning of the letters has changed over the years ...
> 'T' used to be Comeng C+D, 'R' used to be a six-car heated Goninan set.
> 
> But in practice, since the pre-Chopper cars are all interchangeable, cars
> get removed for maintenance and cars get added to make up timetable
> requirements.  The set numbers are on 'target plates' which can be removed
> and replaced in most cases.
> 
> Oddities I've seen this week include
> * A seven car Illawarra train targetted as a four-car 'S' plus a three-car
> 'S'
> * A six-car Illawarra train targetted as four-car 'S' plus two-car 'L' (this
> is standard on the Illawarra as the Wollongong 'L' sets are maintained at
> Mortdale - I seem to see L1 - L4 come and go at Wollongong and at Kogarah)
> * A six-car 'K' set targetted as four-car 'K' plus two-car 'K' (no driving
> trailer, marshalling C-T-T-C-T-C)
> * The inevitable six-car 'R' with four power cars (C-T-C-C-T-C).
> * Eight car Wollongong train composed four-car 'G' + four-car 'T'
> 
> Stranger compositions at the time of the Rugby League finals (when eight car
> trains were in demand)
> 6-car R (CTTCTC) + 2-car K (this was timetabled and ran)
> 6-car R (CTCCTC) + 2-car K
> 4-car S + 4-car K
> 4-car S + 4-car R (!)
> 4-car S containing C-T-D-C
> 
> There was an STN for the Wollongong L sets to be used to build up the
> Sydenham - Bankstown - Lidcombe shuttle to 6-car R + 2-car L but I didn't
> see it happen.
> 
> In practice, if you see a six-car set with 'S' on each end, it's probably
> 1-1/2 4-car 'S' sets.
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Bill :)