New South Wales Tulloch double deck carriage stock

New South Wales Sputnik suburban carriage stock
T4873 at Sydenham station in July 2003
In service	1964-2004
Manufacturer	Tulloch Limited
Built at	Rhodes
Constructed	1964-1968
Number built	120
Formation	4 carriages
Fleet numbers	T4801-T4920
Capacity	132 seated
Operator(s)	New South Wales Government Railways Public Transport Commission State Rail Authority CityRail
Depot(s)	Flemington Hornsby Mortdale Punchbowl
Line(s) served	All Sydney suburban
Specifications
Car length	20.21 metres
Width	3.04 metres
Height	4.38 metres
Doors	4
Weight	34 tonnes
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)

The New South Wales Tulloch double deck carriage stock were a type of electric multiple unit carriage operated by the New South Wales Government Railways and its successors between 1964 and 2004.

History

In February 1964, the first of 120 double deck trailers was delivered by Tulloch Limited to the New South Wales Government Railways. These were purchased to replace wooden carriage stock from Sydney's suburban fleet. The first 40 were built with power operated doors to operate with the Sputnik power cars, the remaining 80 were fitted with manually operated doors for operation with the Suburban and Tulloch stock.^[1]

To operate with the four experimental double deck power cars, in 1968 a further two were converted for powered door operation. Further carriages were converted to power door operation in 1972/73 to operate with the Series 1 S set carriages (C3805-C3857). After the conversions were completed, T4801-T4833 formed part of the Sputnik sets, T4839-T4895 were part of the S sets and T4834-T4838 and T4896-T4920 were operated in manual door form with Suburban and Tulloch stock.^[1][2] At least one of the experimental power cars was converted to a trailer car.

Originally painted indian red, from 1973 they were repainted in the Public Transport Commission blue and white livery before the livery reverted to indian red in 1976. In order to create a consistent with the stainless steel carriages they operated with, T4852 and T4867 were repainted in an experimental silver livery. After a three-year lapse, T4872 was repainted flake grey and this was gradually rolled out to those carriages in S sets with the last completed in June 1993.^[3] The interiors were painted in two-tone green.^[1]

Those operating in single deck sets were withdrawn in the early 1990s, while those in S sets remained in service until March 2004.^[4][5] Several have been preserved.^[6][7]

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