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Pacerailer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Sadler Rail Coach Company· from 1960· prototype railway vehicle, tested in England in the late 1960s
what is it?
The Pacerailer was a prototype railbus, a vehicle consisting of a bus-style body on a four-wheeled railway-vehicle chassis, built by Charles Sadler Ashby's Sadler Rail Coach Company (SRC) in the 1960s. Unlike most other railbuses, it was intended as a luxurious vehicle which could give good views on scenic routes, and the bodywork and seating was based on motor coaches rather than buses. Following the closure of Droxford station, on the Meon Valley Railway in Hampshire, both it and the track south to Wickham station were leased by SRC, who used the line to demonstrate the Pacerailer to potential buyers.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
other: Railcars, inspection vehicles and other rolling stock.
spec sheet
- built
- 1960
- number built
- 1
- kind
- other
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Sadler Rail Coach Company
- designer
- Charles Sadler Ashby
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- B
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q50414201, Wikipedia: Pacerailer (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.