I will miss c-set, I love seats also reminds you old days. 🛤️🚂

Amazing!!! I walked past you and recognised you!

Hi Paul, Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. I remember seeing those C-Set trains quite well. From memory, when first arriving at Campbelltown station from Melbourne on the XPT in early 2000, our first sighting of a Sydney suburban train was a C-Set coming in next to us at the station. It is hard to believe they have now since gone. I also remember as a young child visiting Circular Quay station just after the station opened. it looked like a station of way in the future back in those days. My first ever trip on the East Hills extension was when we visited Sydney in early 2000 and the XPT used the East Hills line coming into Sydney, due to track works on the main line. Yes, I have walked through between carriages on both single and double deck trains in Sydney years ago on many occasions. A bit "hair raising" to say the least!!! Incidentally, I used to have relatives living at Revesby. Anyway, take care. Robert.

The C-set where built between 1986-1987 entering service the same year so they did 35 years of service that quite good really so they have now pass there serviceable life.

C set will be missed, awesome video , thank you for the video. great one

Hi Paul. Thanks for this video and I will say that I was initially very much against these when they were introduced because of the fixed seating. I did however enjoy the air-conditioning which always seemed to work exceptionally well on these trains. I am tall and find that sitting on the upper deck is uncomfortable as I have to hunch over to enjoy the views from the windows. The lower deck is better for me. The walking between cars while moving does seem to appeal to the young boys, however there was a tragedy many years ago ( which was not made public). Two boys were standing outside to have a cigarette and both were leaning against the small metal dividers when the train suddenly lurched and one boy grabbed the chain for support but as you can see in this video, the chain is not tensioned and he fell as the chain could offer him no support. He fell backwards onto the track below and unfortunately didn't survive. I know this as I was friends with the guard who was working the train at the time. Only 56 of these carriages were produced and were found to have asbestos in the drivers cabs. Thanks again Paul and I look forward to your next video.

Great video. Thanks again.

Thank you Paul for the video on the C sets. I remember the old C sets quite will in the early 2000's thay were great train's.

These ran on the main north line for a time in the 1990s. I'm glad they were there at one time at least.

Thanks again, Paul. An interesting history of the C-sets. More fixed seats but the train looked so new and clean inside.I understand about asbestos being one reason for abolition and a good point about the open space between the carriages. the closing in between carriages later seems a big improvement.

Run 90 was the very last C set in service which was C10/C7 for evening run usually rostered as a Waratah A set. I was on both run 27 twice and run 90 for the city circle via Town hall from Central P17 to P22. Gonna miss them like the S sets

The c set still runs today

R.I.P C SETS

I suppose in 10 years people will wonder what the signs sating "sit here" and "stand here" are all about :-) This is my line so travelled the hour journey each way plenty of times on these ...

The C sets K sets and S sets are all iconic, one of the three (cant remember which) is my earliest memory of going on a train in Sydney. I caught it from circular quay in 2012. The sound and smell of train reminds me of Sydney and its just not the same as the newer trains. I really hope they keep the K sets around for the foreseeable future because for me these trains remind me of a different time in my life and they are a nice bit of nostalgia.

i live in campbelltown and im so happy that one of the last c sets was at cambelltown + awesome video!!!

That trip between carriages? Sheer bloody luxury compared with the red rattlers we used to travel on when I was at high school in the late '50's. But the big event in the C set surely is the pulse-width modulation (what you call chopper control), possible after the design of the gate turn off thyristor, a huge advance on the original thyristor, which turned on and latched until power was removed, the GTO's turned off with minimal gate current. One day we will get HST's in NSW with 22,000 volt AC catenaries and fully regenerative AC motors; Siemens, Alstom and CAF all make them, including tilt versions. Just requires a little political imagination, and a lack of diesel fuel. It will happen!

RIP c sets 1986-2021

Oh I aslo forgot to mention, there will be a C set farewell tour on the 6th March

I rode these daily between parramatta and seven hills 2014 to 2016

And off it goes, as the sun sets. An end to an era. Thanks for this video. Liked your controlled slow pans. Other bloggers could learn a few things from you. Why are the C sets being replaced? They certainly seem serviceable enough.

A set VS C Set

I also i will missed C Sets trains it's a great train ever but sometimes you just have to move forward from the day the C Sets retired from service.

The gangway! Back when we were a high trust society and didn’t need so many rules. And the smell! Oh, if only it could be bottled.

I tried to catch one on that day and despite looking for C set runs, I settled for a scheduled C set trip from Liverpool to Central via Bankstown. It was not a C set :( Couldn't find any C sets that day.

The seats themselves were comfortable (despite their looking very plain) as was the ride and overall quietness. I never liked the inability to change the seats over so that you could face the direction of travel.

I believe there being taken out of service due to part availability and them becoming increasingly unreliable and difficult to fix, mainly being as they were a prototype train. Sad to see them go, I agree with you, they're much better than the K sets!

Sad to see these old trains be put to rest. The atmosphere and vibrations much more pleasant than the awful, over-air conditioned, artificial nauseating modern trains.

Yoo I'm the guy with the backpack and green jacket at 6:54

6:55 I went through the gangway of a K set on the city circle a few days ago. My poor ears

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C6 and 10 did have a final stint after this together . C1 and C5 did a bit of work to Olympic Park from Lidcombe separately on rotation too into early May . I had my photo taken with each of them during this time. A family in the Sydney Electric Train Society bought four cars and plated them as C1 with a revised consist . Sydney Trains didn't keep any . Two cars went to the fire service for drill purposes . I did travel in 3588 on the day of this video being recorded to Campbelltown . I had my photo taken next to her upon arrival with the "RIP C SETS" visible in pink on the gangway door . I was wearing a black CM PUNK wrestling t shirt in the group scene at Campbelltown .

K-set will go out of service as well, with the new waratah's and the introduction of the NIF for intercity service they will most likely repurpose the oscar's for the suburban network and will no longer need the K's. Also from a maintenance point of view, it would be easier to get rid of the C's as they have less of them rather than to have a bit of each set.

Why do the V, K, S and C sets have fluted (ridged) bodies at all? The flutes have always been a striking feature of these 1970s and 1980s trains. Thank you.

That’s wasn’t the last C set, Run 90 was replaced by C7 and C10 and finished at 9pm Yesterday at Liverpool

Hi Paul it is sad that there is no longer c-sets can't they bring them back

The C-Set train chopper sound I love the red rattler sound cam motor F1 so have you been on a red rattler or the metro train?

I trust this very clean set will be passed into preservation?

I think theC sets, albeit newer, they have many donor parts that can be utilised in the Tangara and the K sets. The seats are almost similar to the Tangara seats. What is your thought on this? Plus there were fewer produced of these.

In the thumbnail there is a spray that says ‘RIP C SETS’ Welp You Will Never Be Missed C sets☹️

wait, how do u know its the last day of c sets?

And also they are getting rid of them as they were unreliable trains, and were the worst trains to drive. They also had Asbestos in there steel frames👍