During the 1950′s British Railways ordered 5 single car diesel railbuses were ordered from Waggon & Maschinenbau in Donauworth, West Germany.
Yes I have wrongly described it as a Siemens Railbus
So correction made.
British Rail produced a variety of railbuses as a means of both building new rolling stock cheaply, and to provide services on lightly used lines economically. Railbuses are a very lightweight type of railcar designed specifically for passenger transport on little-used railway lines. As the name suggests, they share many aspects of their construction with a bus, usually having a bus body, or a modified bus body, and having four wheels on a fixed wheelbase, instead of on bogies. Some, but not all, of the units have been equipped for operation as diesel multiple units. In the late 1950s, British Rail tested a series of small railbuses, produced by a variety of manufacturers. These proved to be very economical, but also somewhat unreliable. The lines they worked on were mainly closed during the Beeching Cuts and, being non-standard, they were all withdrawn in the mid-1960s, before being allocated TOPS classifications.
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