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Is it a bus or is it a train? It's a Pacer
7 March 2016 Last updated at 00:07 GMT
Commuters have been promised that by 2020 they will no longer be travelling on trains built from the body of a bus.
But how did Britain's railways come to rely on the Pacer?
Video journalist: Dan Curtis
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