Saturday, August 11, 2018

vintage SNCB class 551 autorail


Extra info: 11.33 metres long, an autobus on rail equipped with a 6 cylinder motor, and a 4 speed gearbox. 

It had a single third class compartment consisting of 10 rows of 3 +2 seating places (one row only had a 2-seat) being 47 places in total. They were nicknamed "petit brossels" (little brushes).

2 comments:

Karl Noben said...

Hi, Actually, "Brossel" cannot be translated as "brushes", even though it looks a little bit libe "brosse" (french for brush), Brossel was the manufacturer (a Belgian Bus and tram maker)

transpress nz said...

It was probably a play on words.