Sydney - Inter-Urban Rail

This gallery covers the rolling stock used on the Inter-Urban lines. These are defined as:

Hunter Line - Newcastle to Scone & Dungog
Illawarra Line - Waterfall to Nowra & Port Kembla
Northern Line - Berowra to Newcastle
Southern Line - Macarthur to Goulburn
Western Line - Emu Plains to Lithgow

All except the Hunter Line, the Southern Line and the Illawarra Line south of Kiama are electrified. In these un-electrified areas Endeavour Class Diesel Railcars operate together with the few surviving 620/720 class railcars that assist on the Hunter Line.

V Set EMU's
These were the first fully double deck EMU's in the world. Delivered from 1970 until 1989 these cars primarily work from Central to Newcastle, Lithgow and Kiama. All were constructed by Commonwealth Engineering.

V9 awaits its departure time at Lithgow, 11/12/1995.	V34 at Newcastle Siding. 07/02/1999	V24 at Mount Victoria. 23/12/1999
6 Car V67 on the Up Main passes through Epping, 11/03/2002	Laying over at Central, V94 contains DIM 8020, formerly DIM8067 which is the power car involved in the December 1999 Glenbrook Accident. 30/12/2002.	V19 at Lithgow, 26/07/2003
V64 shown departing Medlow Bath on a very wet 23/08/2003	V32 speeding towards Wollongong through Heathcote. 04/11/2003.	V27 heads west through Lidcombe. 20/12/2003.
An unusual visitor to Town Hall is V36 at Platform 5. 20/12/2003.	V25 heads for Central through Heathcote. 20/03/2004.	V63 heads for Central through Heathcote. 05/06/2004.
6 car V set V64 passing through Heathcote. 10/08/2005.	A 4 car set consisting of V92 & V94 passing through Heathcote. 24/11/2006.

G Set EMU's
With the aging of the original U Set single-deck inter-urbans in the early 1990's a decision was taken to upgrade the last few cars of the order from 450 Tangara cars to 'Outer-Suburban' Tangara's. Unlike the suburban T sets, these G sets have reversible & more comfortable seating, luggage racks, slightly different livery, altered front slant and 1 lavatory per 4 car set. These are primarily used on Peak Services between:

Illawarra Line - Martin Place/Central to Port Kembla
Northern Line - Central to Wyong via the North Shore Line
Western Line - North Sydney to Springwood

They are also regulars at filling in on suburban runs.

G3 speeds through Heathcote. 08/10/2003.

G4 passing through Heathcote. 28/07/2004.

Endeavour Diesel Railcars
To replace the few remaining DEB or 900 class railcars built in the 1950's and the last few diesel hauled inter-urban passenger cars, the 2-car Endeavour Diesel Railcar's were included as part of the order for the CountryLink division's order of Xplorer railcars for their country routes in the early 1990's. Mechanically similar, aside from a lack of intermediate cars, the Endeavours are more spartan inside than their country cousins with fixed seating and vinyl floors. These cars are used in all 3 of CityRail's unelectrified areas.

Endeavour railcars at Sydenham. 13/08/2005

620/720 Class Diesel Railcars
Built by the former NSWGR's workshops in the 1950's, these railcars are still hard at work on the Hunter Line assisting with the newer Endeavour railcars. They are expected to be withdrawn in the next 18 months after nearly 50 years of service that saw them operate in all parts of New South Wales at one time or another.

Railcar set 623/723 on Newcastle's Platform 4. 27/12/1998

Railcar set 621/721 stabled at Newcastle. 27/12/1999

Railcar set 628/728 stabled at Newcastle. 28/12/1999

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