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The red rattlers were good when the doors were wide open and you had those lift up windows. More technology only serves to seal us up like a tin can.
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Swift wrote:The red rattlers were good when the doors were wide open and you had those lift up windows. More technology only serves to seal us up like a tin can.
Think you'll find it is the idiots that do that for us.
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Took my first ride on B2 today. The announcements were set way too loud. Also interesting is that the announcement tone, which has gone from most A sets, is turned on.
The displays seem to have some kind of glitch when displaying an interchange message, it will finish scrolling and then go blank. The display then stays blank even if another announcement is played. After a few minutes, when stopped at a station, it starts working as normal again when the 'this station is...' announcement is manually played (normally plays immediately on door opening).
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Two B sets at Downer Cardiff along with what I assume is A42.
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I don't think that B3 will recieve the motif, only B2 and B1.
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B4 is now has Under test signs in the doors
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B5 Arrived at Auburn Yesterday
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What is the difference between A and B set seats? I heard that there are tweaks to the seating.
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idontknow556 wrote:What is the difference between A and B set seats? I heard that there are tweaks to the seating.
There is an additional Desto in the vestibule area on B sets, just at the bottom staircase, with a couple of ads. whereas, the A’s don’t
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Seating is pretty much the same. The fabric seems a bit bluer but I suspect it's because it hasn't been sat on millions of times yet like the A sets.
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B6 now at Auburn. May have come in Monday night.
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Is this claim correct or incorrect: Set A2 was scrapped due to damages and so A80 was created to replace A2?
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boxythingy wrote:Is this claim correct or incorrect: Set A2 was scrapped due to damages and so A80 was created to replace A2?
I recall A01 and A02 were both scrapped. A01 was rebuilt from scratch at the end of the order and A02 was rebuilt from scratch but renumbered A80. Don’t think it was damages so much as poorer build quality at the start of the order but happy to be corrected.
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Aurora wrote:
boxythingy wrote:Is this claim correct or incorrect: Set A2 was scrapped due to damages and so A80 was created to replace A2?
I recall A01 and A02 were both scrapped. A01 was rebuilt from scratch at the end of the order and A02 was rebuilt from scratch but renumbered A80. Don’t think it was damages so much as poorer build quality at the start of the order but happy to be corrected.
Wasn't A2 damaged in transit from China and completely replaced with A80?
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B1 today spotted at Redfern running run 61.
B1-3 are now running on C set runs 60-62.
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B1 was running on Saturday, saw it at Central. I also saw it on the departure roads at Auburn on Thursday.
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I wonder when Hornby or Lima will release an HO model of these trains?
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More likely one of the local companies will do a limited run sometime?
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The beauty now is they can market two trains out of the same mould, expanding the potential market.
I reckon they would sell up a storm, like Transit Graphics did with their Sydney Buses range.
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About time Ferris bought out a new model
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Swift wrote:The beauty now is they can market two trains out of the same mould, expanding the potential market.
I reckon they would sell up a storm, like Transit Graphics did with their Sydney Buses range.
You can already purchase S and V set models. T sets are available to order from Auscision.
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boronia wrote:About time Ferris bought out a new model
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Another company brought out a four car red set in the 80s, which was very accurate, but cost a bomb. It included pantographs.
Daniel wrote: You can already purchase S and V set models. T sets are available to order from Auscision.
I did not know this. :!: I would love the M set and the new Metro to be released.
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Berg's Hobbies have produced a number of HO scale Sydney suburban car sets through their Minimodels range, from the original Bradfield cars through to DD sets. No doubt the Waratahs are in the pipeline.
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sunnyyan wrote:B1 today spotted at Redfern running run 61.
B1-3 are now running on C set runs 60-62.
With the change of Timetable, from September 30, Run numbers have been re-allocated and the detail of each Run has been altered.

B sets have been allocated Runs 60 to 69 (10 sets).
C sets have been allocated Runs 25 to 30 (previously Runs 60 to 65).
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