page_title: Steam railcar
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Steam railcar / History by country / Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: photograph en:Victorian Railways short lived en:Kerr Stuart steam railmotor circa 1913.[1]
context_page_description: A steam railcar is a railcar that is self powered by a steam engine. The first steam railcar was an experimental unit designed and built in 1847 by James Samuel and William Bridges Adams in Britain. In 1848 they made the Fairfield steam carriage that they sold to the Bristol & Exeter Railway, who used it for two years on a branch line.
context_section_description: In 1883 the Victorian Railways purchased the Rowan steam railmotor. A similar unit was imported from Belgium by the South Australian Railways in 1895.
  In 1913,  Kerr, Stuart and Company built a boiler, shipped it to Australia and the Victorian Railways assembled the Kerr Stuart steam railmotor.
caption: Kerr Stuart steam railmotor in 1913
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