Re: Melbourne 881 971 in depot

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:57:32 +1000, you wrote:

To the best of my knowledge, S was for sliding door. W-5s were built originally without doors, so as each one was modified they put an SW before its number.

According to Destination City, while the last 10 W5 cars (840-849)
were under construction it was decided to give them sliding doors and
other features of the prototype SW6 850. They were the only original
SW5s. This was in 1939/40 and it wasn't until much later that a number
of the other W5s were converted to SW5 (2 in 1956 and 83 in 1983-86).

They didn't bother with S prefixes on the later Ws because they came standard with sliding doors.

There were 120 SW6 cars built between 1939-1951.

Timeline:
120 W5 1935-39
10 SW5 1939-40
120 SW6 1939-51
30 W6 1951-55
40 W7 1955-56
2 W5 converted to SW5 1956
83 W5 converted to SW5 1983-86

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Best wishes,
Malcolm

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