Suburban car of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway.

Original description for photograph: "New Steel Cars for Suburban Service in India." With the expected early advent of electrification, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway deemed it advisable to look ahead and be prepared with steel cars ready for service on the electrified sections as soon as these can be prepared. The new trains will at present run in the steam operated service, and replace or augment the trains already in local traffic. The responsibility for the design of these cars rests with the Carriage and Wagon Superintendent Mr. A. M. Bell of the G. I. P. Railway, while the construction was entrusted to Messrs. Cammell Laird & Co., at their Nottingham Works. England. The underframe is similar to the standard adopted by the I. R. C. A., but modified to receive the steel superstructure above. The bodies are 68' long and 10' wide, built up of steel of 14 and 16 S. W. G. thickness with mouldings electrically welded in place. The roofs, ends, etc., have been brought out to India in assembled sections to be then secured in position on the underframing by riveting. The internal finish of the cars is in Indian timber; the seating arrangements for 100 passengers in the III class have been prepared at Matunga, ready for incorporation in the bodies as they are erected. The cars will be vestibuled together so that a passage will exist throughout the train, the general style of the subway trains. Provision is made in every fourth car for a motor control and it is intended when these cars are in the electric service, to operate the brakes with compressed air, and the sliding doors will be manipulated by the same force.

"Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1900s). Scan from the Internet Archive of Book Images. (Admin)