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Rail Paybus FP1
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1937· historic site in New South Wales, Australia
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Rail Paybus FP1: JustARandomEditor123· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. New South Wales Railway Museum 111: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
Rail Paybus FP1 is a heritage-listed former railbus and now museum exhibit at NSW Rail Transport Museum Barbour Road, in the outer south-western Sydney town of Thirlmere in the Wollondilly Shire local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by the New South Wales Government Railways Road Motor Section and built in 1937 by Waddingtons Ltd (body), Ford Motor Co. (chassis and mechanical components).
who runs it
fun facts
- First built 89 years ago, in 1937.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1937
- status
- preserved
- number built
- —
- 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 Q58204308, Wikipedia: Rail Paybus FP1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.