Renault PS

The Renault PS was a type of standard-gauge railcar built by Renault in five examples in 1928 and 1929. Two units went to the PLM, two others were ordered by the secondary railways of the north-east for the line from Soissons to Guignicourt, and the Austrian federal railways received a single example. In 1938 the two PLM cars joined the SNCF, and the Austrian car joined the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The PS derives directly from the Renault PF, a metre or narrow gauge railcar put into service in 1925 on the Algerian state railways, and the two types share the design of their chassis, body, engine and transmission. The body is oak and steel sheet on a steel frame, the railcar is 17.7 m long over buffers, and it has a six-cylinder Renault petrol engine of 110 hp at 2,200 rpm. The top speed of the PLM cars was set at 60 km/h although they could reach 65.