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"alt": "BEMU",
"word": "battery electric multiple unit"
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"word": "diesel multiple unit"
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"word": "diesel electric multiple unit"
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"ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:",
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"sense": "train of self-propelled cars",
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