Talk:GWR steam rail motors

message: I don't know enough about GWR steam railmotors to write an article so I've put up this Redirect page as a temporary measure until somebody else does. Biscuittin 16:10, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: BR Western Region in the 1950s and to 1963 and no doubt the GWR used the term "railmotor" to mean an autotrain, i.e. a steam locomotive and a driving trailer (and possibly other trailers). For example all the Chalford to Gloucester stopping trains (14XX plus auto-trailer) were marked Railmotor in the WTT. I don't recognise some of the terminology in this article.
Phillips, in the authoritative book, The Story of the Westbury to Weymouth Line,  OPC, says on page 20: "Other halts [were opened] ... and finally Thornford Bridge (23rd March 1936) and the to cater for the new halts the railmotor service was extended from Dorchester to Maiden Newton." This Wikipedia article says that all railmotors were out of service by 1935.
I don't know whether this article intends to cover that variant, but if not there needs to be a statement at the head of the article referring to the term being used for other kinds of vehicle. If I had the reference book I would do it myself. Afterbrunel (talk) 22:09, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The Chalford-Gloucester service was definitely worked by steam railmotors (SRMs) at first, because some of the better books on SRMs show that the first two SRMs were built for that route. One of the RCTS books on the GWR (it may be part 11) shows that the GWR's public timetables showed something like "Rail motor service - one class only" for services that were operated by a loco plus auto-trailer, as well as those which were operated by a true SRM. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
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