This four-car vintage electric train set is part of the fleet of 883 single-deck steel carriages that formed the backbone of the Sydney Suburban fleet from 1926 until the early 1990s.

More affectionately known by Sydneysiders as the ‘red rattlers’, this particular train set is an excellent representative example of a typical Sydney suburban electric train from the early twentieth century.

One of the carriages, C 3426, was the leading car on the first electric train to cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge on its opening in 1932.

Built in 1927, it is an early example of a carriage constructed entirely of steel, representing a great advance in passenger rolling stock design for its time. Although this particular car was subject to a large number of modifications from 1954 onwards, it is the only one of this type of ‘modernised’ car to survive intact.