"railbus" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1958 April 20, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275:",
          "text": "Constructional features of the railbus include the use of rubber suspension for axlebox/underframe and underframe/body mountings, the use of B.U.T. power transmission equipment, many components of which are interchangeable with those on British Railways standard railcars, power-operated sliding doors, and an absence of normal sidebuffers or drawgear.",
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          "text": "They were ruled out as over-engineered and too expensive for mass production, and lost out to Class 141 and '142' railbuses, and then Class 150s.",
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        "(rail transport) A lightweight passenger railway vehicle, similar in appearance to a bus."
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