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New South Wales FP Pay Bus
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1937· Series of railbuses
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Pay Bus FP 8: Shed Rat· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. New South Wales Railway Museum 111: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The FP Pay Bus are a series of thirteen small 4 wheel railbuses built for the Department of Railways New South Wales between 1937 and 1970. The rail buses were intended for use on branch lines whose low passenger numbers did not warrant the use of a larger railmotor.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 89 years ago, in 1937.
- Served for 49 years (1937–1986).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1937–1970
- in service from
- 1937
- retired
- 1986
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 14
- kind
- Diesel mechanical
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- Department of Railways New South Wales
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927347, Wikipedia: New South Wales FP Pay Bus (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.