#1922
New South Wales Wooden motor carriage stock
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1921· Train that formerly operated in Australia
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C3045 at the NSW Rail Museum: Chester H. Winnfield· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The New South Wales Wooden motor carriage stock are a type of electric multiple unit formerly operated by the New South Wales Government Railways and its successor, the Public Transport Commission between 1921 and 1975. They are amongst the first electric carriages to be introduced in New South Wales along with the first 50 standard suburban carriages and are some of the oldest electric rolling stock in the world. They gained the nickname "Bradfield carriages" or "Bradfields" after the New South Wales Railway's Chief Engineer John Bradfield, even though they were designed by Chief Mechanical Engineer Edward Lucy.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 105 years ago, in 1921.
- 18.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 54 years (1921–1975).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1921
- in service from
- 1921
- retired
- 1975
- status
- retired
- number built
- 101
- kind
- Electric Multiple Unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering, Ritchie Brothers, Meadowbank Manufacturing Company
- designer
- E. E. Lucy
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways, New South Wales Public Transport Commission
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 270 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC catenary
- length
- 18.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19876178, Wikipedia: New South Wales Wooden motor carriage stock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.