3708 W Car

The 3708 W Car at the Eveleigh Paint Shop is a steel-bodied wagon-style carriage standing on its own length of track inside the workshop. The body sides carry the W-class designation and the road number 3708 in white block lettering against the steel paintwork. Riveted construction is visible along the length of the body. End vestibules carry sliding doors; one is open, the other closed. The roof carries the original ventilator pattern. Bogies under the carriage are heavy steel-framed, with brake rigging visible between the wheelsets. The carriage sits on the same set of rails as the rest of the heritage collection, beneath the sawtooth roof glazing of the workshop.

The 3708 W Car is part of the Historic Electric Traction volunteer-managed collection at the Eveleigh Paint Shop. HET took over the active preservation of significant suburban and interurban carriages after the closure of the workshop's regular operations in 1990, and works with NSW heritage authorities to restore and maintain the surviving rolling stock from the steam-and-electric transition era. The 3708 has been a long-running restoration project. The bodywork in this photograph is essentially complete; the mechanical and electrical work continues on whatever schedule the volunteer crew can sustain.