Well in my high school days, the Child Excursion Ticket cost 20 cents. The challenge was to ride around as much as possible before handing in half the ticket! It was the early 80s when Loftus Junction to Waterfall was electrified, but your trips to the Park should have had electric trains, but maybe sometimes a rail motor was used.

@@tressteleg1 1971.

@@peregrinemccauley5010 1971 for what?

F1 does normally run several times each year, and you should check the HET facebook page. Or better still, join HET. However F1 is overdue for an overhaul but it is hoped that similar W3 will soon take over then assist F1 when it is rejuvenated.

I had a taken on the last day in early 1992 but just now accidentally deleted it completely. I will have to upload it again. This is my other video taken when the red sets were in daily use. Single Deck Electric Trains Sydney Part 1 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nd97lKh7t9fTk30.html

I have uploaded the lost Last Day video which has been slightly modified as well. Single Deck Electric Trains Sydney Part 2 Last Day (Re-posting) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5qnfJljs72pcZs.html

Limited to 70km/h that day for mechanical reasons. Work to be done.

1,500VDC is my understanding.

Each motor car accelerate between 170A to 250A, when the driver's controller is in the series notch, all traction motor circuits are connected in series, with 170-250A being the total car current. When the train gets to speed and the driver's controller is in the parallel notch, the traction circuit is split, the first motor circuit pair is connected in parallel with the other, doubling the total car current to 500A, the ammeter only measures half of the traction circuit so will always measure between 170A to 250A. 1500vDC is the nominal operating voltage, current surges can sometimes reach 300A, equating to 600A in parallel.

That is the current drawn from just that car which has four 200 HP motors. The two other power cars have two motors of 360 HP. Line voltage in Sydney and Melbourne is 1500 v DC

@@Ali6359. Thanks for posting that information, Ali. The person who asked is a long time friend of mine and he found the information rather interesting. I also learned something - I did not know the ammeter only measured one motor (or pair) in Parallel. So the current drawn by the other pair is just presumed.

I guess you are referring to the old Como bridge which remains in place beside the current bridge. Opening and closing of the doors was purely the choice of the passengers. And if it wasn’t wet or particularly cold, they were often simply left open. We weren’t treated like little children in those days.