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Suburban Diesel Push-Pull types (Mistakenly referred to as Power Sets)
Class Wheel
Arrangement		 Horse Power Description/Remarks/Picture
S1 Bo-2+
Bo-2+
2-Bo+
2-Bo		 180 x 2 British, English Electric, 6 cylinder Williams powered through electric transmission, green and silver livery, imported 1936. Originally D1 Class of 1936 (before general re-classification of 1938 - the thinking was D for Diesel). These three POWERED SETS were named Silver Foam, Silver Spray and Silver Mist. After their scrapping in 1955, their engines and transmissions were installed in the local experimental M3 "Jayanthi" Class.
The "Push-pulls" are incorrectly referred to as "Power Sets". But the actual Powered Sets were only the S1s. These were four car sets, and each had one powered bogie, whereas push-pulls have one power car cum control cab and a non powered control cab at each end, with some trailers in between.
S2 B-B 790 Swiss-German, Schindler, Maybach V8 powered, hydraulic transmission, red livery, imported late 1950's
S3 B-B 880 German, Machinenfabrik Augusberg-Nurenberg, MAN V12 powered, hydraulic transmission, red livery, imported early 1960's
S4 B-B 1000
S5 B-B 775 Japanese, Hitachi, Paxman V12 powered, hydraulic transmission, green and red livery, imported 1969, Air-conditioned tourist train
S6 B-B 1165 Japanese, Hitachi, Paxman V12 powered, hydraulic transmission, originally red livery, imported 1975
S7 B-B 1020 Japanese, Hitachi, Cummins V8 powered, hydraulic transmission, originally red livery, imported 1977
S8 B-B 1150 Japanese/Korean, Hitachi-Hyundai, MTU V12 powered, hydraulic transmission, orange and grey livery, imported 1989. At a length of 65ft these are the longest items of railway stock in our system
S9
 Bo-Bo 1150 Chinese, MTU V12 powered, electric tranmission, Blue, yellow and white livery, imported May 2000. The unique feature being the ability to run on power supplied off overhead cables, when electrification eventually takes place.



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