Hi again Gregory
On (08 Jul 97) Gregory Procter wrote to Alec Cameron...
 AC> Someone in NSW took the credit for d.d. commuter trains when these
 AC> were locally supplied for Sydney in the 1970s? 1960s?  Parochial
 AC> pride....
 GP> What, I have a photo in front of me of a Danish double deck commuter 
train
 GP> of
 GP> 1879, and not an experiment either! And they certainly don't claim it as 
a
 GP> "first"!
When I have criticised local railfans for asserting that NSW was first with
EMU d/ deckers, some have replied "oh it was the use of dd motor cars that 
as
"first" in NSW".
Initially, our dds were trailers only, four dd trailers marshalled with four
sd motor cars. The weight of a loaded train proved excessive and soon there 
was
a change from 2/ 365HP motors to 4/ smaller ones per motor car. Severe
horizontal buffeting resulted and NSW then began to fit horizontal
longitudinal shock absorbers between the bogie spring planks and the car
underframes.
Cheers.....ALEC
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