Silver City Comet: diesel train on trial run from Sydney to Moss Vale, 1937
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Where: New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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When: 07 July 1937
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Format: 1 film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative) - 35 mm.
Notes: The Silver City Comet was the first of four air-conditioned high speed diesel trains to be placed in regular service on the NSW Railways. Resplendent in silver and blue, they 'streaked from Sydney to Moss Vale in a little over two hours and then raced back to Sydney', 7 July 1937. They were the first fully air-conditioned diesel trains in the British Empire.
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Notes: The Silver City Comet was the first of four air-conditioned high speed diesel trains to be placed in regular service on the NSW Railways. Resplendent in silver and blue, they 'streaked from Sydney to Moss Vale in a little over two hours and then raced back to Sydney', 7 July 1937. They were the first fully air-conditioned diesel trains in the British Empire.
From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au
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Persistent url: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=22134
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as soon as I saw this pic I knew it to be the silver city comet which I rode probably pre 1980, after moving interstate for a bit I was saddened to see it had been withdrawn from service, I remember the trip as being different from any other train trip I had taken since the late 1950's
Addie C
It's a gorgeous train. It's funny because nowadays you can drive from Sydney to Moss Vale a lot quicker then that.
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trinketks
Wow - 70 years later and it still takes the same amount of time to travel by train between Sydney and Moss vale.
chrishebbron
Who built them?
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Power van DP 101 was the first of five built in the NSW Railway workshop at Eveleigh (Redfern) in 1937. Ritchie Bros of Auburn, Sydney, NSW, built twelve air-conditioned passengers cars of which three are preserved at the Sulphide Street Railway Museum Broken Hill.