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#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…

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…

Railcar 8. Robert Haebich Collection,
National Railway Museum
nrm.org.au/collections/31…

Model 75 larger version of 55
First (#30) built J.G. Brill Company with the remaining railcars Islington Railway Workshops
entered service 1927
#30-59 5' 3" gauge
#100-106 3'6" gauge

SAR Brill 75 class #55
Brill 55 class in platform Wanbi 1932
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Class 200 (broad gauge) and 300 (narrow gauge) series trailer carriages were built with the railcars
#200-221 #300-304

Adelaide Down Suburban Brill No 37 leading
Weston Langford 16 August 1962
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Eurelia Up Railcar Brill No 106 (3' 6" gauge)
Weston Langford 13 August 1962
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…

Eurelia Down Goods T 211 and Up Railmotor Brill No 106
Weston Langford 13 August 1962
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Narrow gauge Brill 75 class railcar no 104 hauling two short tom passenger cars out of Port Pirie c. 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

South Australian Railways Brill railcar no. 42.
Ted Lidster collection
flickr.com/photos/2990311…

SAR Brill railcar trailer no. 210.
Ted Lidster collection
flickr.com/photos/2990311…

1928, a Model 75 and trailer were sold to VR by SAR became 44RM and 200MT regularly operated between Echuca and Toolamba. 44RM scrapped 1951. 200MT at Healesville.

BRILL RAIL MOTOR RM44 DERAILED UPSIDE BYRNESIDE 10-4-1949 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

Preserved:
Railcars 8 (55) & 41 (75) National Railway Museum
106 (75) trailer car 305 Pichi Richi Railway
SteamRanger 60 (75) which was converted from condemned Brill trailer 207 and also 43 (75)

Railcar 41. J Rhule Collection @NRMPortAdelaide
nrm.org.au/collections/31…

Video:
Pichi Richi Railway 106 & 305
2013

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