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Autocoaches/ autotrailers were quite common in steam locomotive days. In fact their origins lay in a passenger coach which had a vertical boiler at one end and as such was a combination of locomotive and passenger car. They were known as steam railmotors and often pulled a trailing passenger carriage.
The usual arrangement was one autocoach or two, but heavily used branches, particularly in the Plymouth area did often have four - two either side of the locomotive. The control of the locomotive was from the end of one autocoach -depending on direction of travel. The fireman remained on the locomotive footplate for his part of the job.
This link is about the steam railmotors:
The usual arrangement was one autocoach or two, but heavily used branches, particularly in the Plymouth area did often have four - two either side of the locomotive. The control of the locomotive was from the end of one autocoach -depending on direction of travel. The fireman remained on the locomotive footplate for his part of the job.
This link is about the steam railmotors:
GWR Railmotor, Auto-Coach, Auto-Trains As Steam Multiple-Unit Trains
About GWR railmotors, auto-trains, auto-coaches, auto-trailers and steam powered multiple-unit trains
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