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New South Wales Standard suburban carriage stock
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Leeds Forge Company· from 1925· class of electric multiple units
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Red set F1 on 100 years of Electric trains in New South Wales: Chester H. Winnfield· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Standard suburban carriage stock is the collective name given to a class of electric multiple units built by various manufacturers from 1924–1937 that were operated by the New South Wales Government Railways and its successors between 1926 and 1992 on the Sydney suburban network. In the years before their withdrawal, they, along with the Tulloch and Sputnik stock, were nicknamed "Red Rattlers", a term borrowed from Melbourne in reference to the Tait trains. They were also known as 1927 type carriages.
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 101 years ago, in 1925.
- 18.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 67 years (1925–1992).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1925
- in service from
- 1925
- retired
- 1992
- status
- retired
- number built
- 355
- kind
- Electric Multiple Unit (EMU)
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Leeds Forge Company, Clyde Engineering, Walsh Island Dockyard and Engineering Works
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways, New South Wales Public Transport Commission, State Rail Authority of New South Wales, CityRail
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC catenary
- formation
- 2–8 carriages
- length
- 18.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19876205, Wikipedia: New South Wales Standard suburban carriage stock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.