Car 4554

Car 4554 at the Eveleigh Paint Shop is a steel-bodied carriage sitting on one of the workshop's restoration tracks. The body is painted in the chocolate-and-cream NSW Government Railways livery, with the number 4554 lettered in white block capitals on the side. The body construction follows the riveted-steel pattern of the suburban fleet, with the same sliding-door arrangement at the end vestibules and the same window pattern down the side. The bogies under the carriage are steel-framed; the underbody equipment includes battery boxes, traction control gear, and air reservoirs depending on the carriage's class designation. The cladding shows the wear of decades of regular service.

Car 4554 is part of the heritage rolling-stock collection at the Eveleigh Paint Shop, held by the Historic Electric Traction volunteer group. The car is part of the same suburban fleet that 4052 belongs to, built within the same general programme of all-steel electric stock that came in with the network's expansion through the early decades of the twentieth century. Specific service history for 4554 is documented in HET's own records; the carriage is one of several similar examples held at the workshop. The body in this photograph is largely intact, with restoration work continuing on the interior and the running gear.