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Jun 19th 2020, 13 tweets, 5 min read
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4' 8.5" gauge United Goninan 2000-4
Prospector
Driving cars WDA001-WDA003
Driving cars no buffet WDB011-WDB013
Motored non driving WDC021
AvonLink
Driving cars WEA031 WEB041

Transwa Prospector
Meredin 2007
perthtrains.nachohat.org/image/5660/
WEB041, WEA031 Herne Hill 2017
Phill Waller
flickr.com/photos/1427920…
Transwa Prospector Cars WDA class cross at Merredin
R Dow
Dec 2017
WDA003 WDA002
Kalgoorlie The Prospector
R Dow
Dec 2017
Merredin Perth bound Prospector
R Dow
Dec 2017
Merredin outbound Prospector approaching
R Dow
Dec 2017
Buffet on the Prospector
Hey, it was near Christmas ..
R Dow
Dec 2017
WDB013 at Kalgoorlie
R Dow
Dec 2017
Merredin November 2008 WEB041
perthtrains.nachohat.org/image/6122/
Video:
5 Set Prospector coming into Merredin, WA 2018
The Prospector and Avonlink cross early morning at Midland
2007
perthtrains.nachohat.org/image/5738/
Terminating Prospector East Perth
Dec 2017
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Jun 21st 2020
#SARrailcars
250 class railcar "Bluebird" power cars 11 250-260
100 class driving trailers 7 100-106
280 power baggage cars 3 280-282
Islington 1954-1959
5' 3" gauge, later converted to std gauge

Bluebird 252 103 105 260
Chris Drymalik 1988
comrails.com/pic_cd/cd_p010… Image
Bluebird Baggage Railcar No 282, Keswick 2011
flickr.com/photos/2902917… Image
A Bluebird train is loaded with mail at the Victor Harbor railway station, 1983
adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle/sa-w… Image
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Jun 20th 2020
#SARrailcars
Brill railcars 5' 3" gauge & 3' 6" gauge

Model 55 J.G.Brill Co. 1924 5' 3"
Midewest 4-cylinder 68 hp petrol later larger diesel engines
12 #4-15
Some converted to 3' 6"

Model 55 #8
@NRMPortAdelaide Port Adelaide 2006
Chris Drymalik
comrails.com/pic_cd/cd_p103… Image
In 1930s No. 7 was fitted with a Deutz 110 hp air-cooled diesel engine. The other model 55 Brill railcars fitted with Gardiner 102 hp diesel engines.

Brill Model 55 Railcar No.7 Adelaide
Noel Reed
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1944 #10 converted to 3' 6" > #111 back to 5' 3" in 1959 (renumbered #4)
#4 was converted to 3' 6" temporarily in 1954 to allow 111 to be overhauled

Brill Model 55 (left) and Model 75 railcars north railcar depot tracks at Adelaide railway station, 1962
wikiwand.com/en/South_Austr… Image
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Jun 20th 2020
#SARrailcars
Steam motor coach (SMC) 2-2-0 WT 1906
Engine: Kitson, Leeds
Coach: Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage & Wagon Co, Birmingham
2 built for SAR No. 1 & No. 2

SMC1 at Quorn
(Bronte Watts Postcard Collection)
comrails.com/pic_mbc/mbc_b0…
c. 1907 Image
No.1 was allocated to the Northern Division
mainly Quorn <> Hawker weekly service
No.1 became known locally as ' Coffee Pot '

No.2 was allocated to the South Eastern system between Naracoorte <> Kingston

SMC 2 at Naracoorte
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+305…
c. 1907 Image
SMC1 & 2 similar but SMC2 had a small driving compartment trailing end.

SMC1 between Hawker and Quorn
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+255…
c. 1922 Image
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