Talk:British Rail railbuses

message: As far as I know the 79960-64 were used on the Audley End to Bartlow Branchline (or at least some of them were) until its closure.  Is this sort of information useful enoguh to include? to check - http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/b/bartlow/index.shtml
— Preceding unsigned comment added by GeologyTom (talk • contribs)  15:33, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic Routes 

message: How many crew were on a railbus and how did this compare to the steam hauled trains which they replaced ( driver, fireman and guard)?    Tabletop (talk) 03:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crew 

message: I removed this sentence; "However, no further hauled railbus vehicles were produced as locomotive haulage was falling out of fashion"  from the article as it makes no sense. A railbus is by definition self powered. The name of a hauled railbus, ie not one self powered, is a "carriage". The reason no more railbuses were built is that the tiny lines that used them were nearly all gone and the higher expectations of sector management led to all build after the Pacer/Skipper family being to main line standard (ie the Class 150 Sprinter). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Britmax (talk • contribs) 14:57, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hauled railbus?

message: Most sources seem to say that LEV1 started off as an unpowered test vehicle (built late 1977 to early 1978) and then had an engine and transmission added in 1979, i.e. it was the same vehicle.
However Colin Marsden`s book (Second Generation DMUs) say`s :
Initially an unpowered short underframe four wheeled trailer......... was put together and first seen by the public and railway press in June 1977.
In 1979 an actual demonstration vehicle was assembled at the EDU (Engineering Development Unit - Derby), this had a slightly different body style, was a bit longer and only had one pair of folding passenger doors on each side. (as opposed to two pairs on the same side, which the initial "trailer" test vehicle had, the photographs also show this, though it would be possible to add this modification to the original unit).
This implies that it wasn`t the same unit.
What is the truth of the matter ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JustinSmith (talk • contribs) 19:28, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  LEV1, two vehicles or one ? 

message: This article is missing the first generation British Rail railbus (the ACV - AEC/British Leyland) units. As a result it has a "first" and "second" generation that are in fact "second" and "third".
See http://www.brindale.co.uk/ach/prv_site/site_index/prv_site_frames.htm?http://www.brindale.co.uk/ach/prv_site/prv_rail_buses_images.htm and also "A Pictorial Record of British Railways Diesel Multiple Units"
81.2.110.250 (talk) 10:58, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First and Second generation 

message: The details in Railway Magazine November 1958 p. 800 differ from those in the article. It says there were 44 seats and the length was 39ft 10in overall, 38ft over the body. It also gives the weight as 11½ tons, achieved by tubular body construction. As one of the features (and failings) of the buses was their light weight, should there be a column showing this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnragla (talk • contribs) 01:31, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wickham details 

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