Silver City Comet: diesel train on trial run from Sydney to Moss Vale, 1937
Format: 1 film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative) - 35 mm.
Notes: The Silver City Comet was the first of four air-conditioned high speed diesel trains to be placed in regular service on the NSW Railways. Resplendent in silver and blue, they 'streaked from Sydney to Moss Vale in a little over two hours and then raced back to Sydney', 7 July 1937. They were the first fully air-conditioned diesel trains in the British Empire.
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Silver City Comet: diesel train on trial run from Sydney to Moss Vale, 1937
Format: 1 film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative) - 35 mm.
Notes: The Silver City Comet was the first of four air-conditioned high speed diesel trains to be placed in regular service on the NSW Railways. Resplendent in silver and blue, they 'streaked from Sydney to Moss Vale in a little over two hours and then raced back to Sydney', 7 July 1937. They were the first fully air-conditioned diesel trains in the British Empire.
From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au
Information about photographic collections of the State Library of New South Wales acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx
Persistent url: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=22134