Interurban Motor Car CF5015

Interurban Motor Car CF5015 at the Eveleigh Paint Shop is a steel-bodied electric motor carriage built for the NSW Government Railways' interurban services to Newcastle, Wollongong, and the Blue Mountains. The body is longer than the suburban motor cars and carries the higher windows and the slightly higher ride height of the interurban fleet. The CF5015 designation is lettered on the body side in white block capitals. The carriage carries pantograph fittings on the roof and traction motor underframe equipment between the bogies. The body is painted in a heritage interurban livery, the lettering legible. End vestibules carry standard sliding doors; one of them is open in the photograph.

The CF-series interurban motor cars were the workhorses of NSW's longer-distance electric commuter services through the second half of the twentieth century. The motor cars carried the traction equipment and a driver's cab at each end, with trailer carriages making up the rest of the set. The cars handled the longer runs through the Blue Mountains and along the south and north coasts where the electric overhead extended out of central Sydney. CF5015 is part of the Historic Electric Traction heritage collection at the Eveleigh Paint Shop. It is retired from regular service and held for ongoing restoration.