VR Harris B1 - 1956+

VR Harris B1 - 1956+

The First Series Harris Suburban Cars was a whole new design compared to standard carriage conversions like the Swingdoors and Taits and where to replace the aged Swingdoors and Taits.
They where built by Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Co from 1956 through to 1959 and where assembled at Newport Workshops, they where set for 80mph running and where fitted with Brandford Kendall T30C Roller Bearing Bogies, the new interior design allowed for higher crush loads compared to the Swingdoors that had compartments, only the back of the car is a compartment for none smoking people.

30 of these backing trailer cars where built numbered from 501 to 530, these cars orginally had unpainted window frames, due to rust the windows where later painted blue, Harris cars where to run in 4 Car Sets permanently coupled as M-T-T-M along with another 3 sets permanently coupled as BT-T-M to combine them into a 7 car Peak Hour Set with an average loading of 1400 passengers, some where shunted as M-T-T-M-BT-M to create 6 car sets for peak limit stopper runs from 1970s, sets that run to Warrigul ran in 8 car sets as M-T-T-M-M-T-T-M.

Most of the Harris cars where withdrawn from 1981 because of the Asbestos scare going around which was the main insulation for these cars, some of the later overhauled cars had asbestos removed around 1970s and where in operation till 1988-89 and which by then the Comengs had entered service, most of these cars where berried in a waste dump due to Asbestos, Some of the First Series Trailer Cars survive as country MTH, BH and BTH.

Unloaded Tare Mass: 32-6-0-0
Axle Load: 11-0-0-0
Minimum Weight Rail: 60lb/y
Passengers Seated: 72
Passengers Standing: 126
Passengers Crush Load: 198
Brake Cylinders: (1) 14in x 12in with Air Slack Adjuster
Brake Ratio: Airbrake 73.2%, Handbrake 48.4%

VR Harris B1 - 1956+
body
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body_highest.im 937.87KB
body_low.im 57.02KB
body_mid.im 550.14KB
brake-rigging.im 38.01KB
brake-rigging.kin 31.79KB
digit_4.texture.txt 32 bytes
digit_4.tga 812 bytes
digit_5.texture.txt 32 bytes
digit_5.tga 812 bytes
digit_6.texture.txt 32 bytes
digit_6.tga 812 bytes
draw-bar.im 2.06KB
fixed-knuckle.im 8.66KB
left-doors.im 126.18KB
left-doors.kin 3.20KB
main-alpha-main-alpha.texture.txt 57 bytes
main-alpha.texture.txt 57 bytes
main-alpha.tga 4.00MB
main-env.tga 12.00MB
main-main-env.texture.txt 49 bytes
main-normals.texture.txt 83 bytes
main-normals.tga 12.00MB
main-spec.tga 12.00MB
main.tga 12.00MB
right-doors.im 145.14KB
right-doors.kin 3.20KB
vents-lod0.im 144.80KB
vents-lod1.im 50.49KB
vents.kin 11.62KB
vents.lm.txt 210 bytes
bt_alpha_numbers
alphanumber_0.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_1.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_2.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_3.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_4.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_5.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_6.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_7.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_8.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_9.tga 12.04KB
• icon.tga 6.04KB
• screenshot.jpg 57.26KB
• seats.txt 11.22KB
shadow
shadow.im 3.03KB
• t_car.gs 30.88KB