The return fare of 3/6 included admission to the course.

When the service commenced L/P and O/P cars were used as the 'Ps' had not entered service.

[quote] ..on November 23, 1940, the outbound first class race special only attracted four passengers! [end quote]

There's also a bit about the non use of corridor cars due to their slow loading.

Source: David R Keenan "The South-Eastern Lines of the Sydney Tramway System" pages 67-87.

I must have a slow and complete re-reading of this chapter.

Ding ding
Ted

Michael Lewis mdlewis@...> wrote:
Randwick Racecourse by First Class Tram

1. FIRST CLASS
SPECIAL
3/6 RETURN

The Sydney tradition of selling return tickets to special events
was maintained. But instead of a small mark up, the price of 3/6 -
three shilling and sixpence was charged. The return fares on ordinary
tram services would have been approx. a shilling - 1/- or less.

This was very expensive - but not for fancy punters. The depression and the
divorce of the tramways from the railways occurred in the early 1930s.
So I don't thing the service lasted very long.

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