- AEC railmotor
Infobox Locomotive
name=AEC railmotor
powertype=petrol engine
caption=AEC railmotor at Mornington Station
builder=Associated Equipment Company (Chassis & Engine)Victorian Railways (Body)
designer=Victorian Railways
builddate=1922 - 1925
totalproduction=19
length=Unknown
weight=Unknown
axleload=Unknown
topspeed=Unknown
poweroutput=45 hpThe AEC railmotor was the
Victorian Railways first successful railmotor first introduced in 1922 and constructed until 1925 a total of 19 AECs were built.They came in 3 different forms; seating for 37 passengers in Second Class only, seating for 32 First Class passengers, Seating for 10 First Class passengers and 22 in Second Class and Seating for 11 First Class passengers and 21 in Second Class. They also had special designed trailers built to increase capacity. The AEC's were withdrawn throughout the 1950's as the new Walker railmotors came into service.
Usage
* AEC railmotors were used on the Reservoir - Whittlesea shuttle service from 1924 until 1931.cite journal | year = 1995 | month = November | title = Reservoir - Whittlesea: Signalling and Safeworking | author = Jack McLean | journal = Newsrail | publisher = Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division) | pages = pages 333-337 ]
* On the Outer Circle line a pair of AEC railmotors coupled back to back operated the "Deepdene Dasher" service from Riversdale to Deepdene from
15 August 1926 until10 October 1927 when the service was replaced by buses.cite book
author = David Beardsell and Bruce Herbert
title = The Outer Circle: A history of the Oakleigh to Fairfield Park Railway
publisher = Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division)
year = 1979
page = page 63
isbn = 0 85849 024 2 ]* On the Upfield line an AEC railmotor operated a shuttle service between Fawkner and Somerton (on the site of today's Roxburgh Park station) from the reopening of the section in 1928, until 1956 when the line north from Fawkner was closed.cite web | title = Somerton | work = Victorian Signalling Histories | publisher = Andrew Waugh | url = http://www.vrhistory.com/Locations/Somerton.pdf | format = HTML | accessdate = 2008-01-22 ]
Railmotor layout
ee also
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Victorian Railways
*Associated Equipment Company References
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