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railbus en · NOUN

Etymology

From rail + bus.

Meanings

1. A lightweight passenger railway vehicle, similar in appearance to a bus.
   • Constructional features of the railbus include the use of rubber suspension for axlebox/underframe and underframe/body mountings, the use of B.U.T. power transmission equipment, many components of which are interchangeable with those on British Railways standard railcars, power-operated sliding doors, and an absence of normal sidebuffers or drawgear. 1958 April 14, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275:
   • They were ruled out as over-engineered and too expensive for mass production, and lost out to Class 141 and '142' railbuses, and then Class 150s. 2023 April 5, “£35,000 needed to save a Class 317 and create rebuilt '210' DMU”, in RAIL, number 980, page 8:

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