Did the railways in england ever build one for use in uk . These were different to steam railmotors . Im sure a lot of the designers had staff scanning engineering periodicals and railway gazzettes to gain new ideas for thier company . Im sure the loco builders also built custom orders for export . heres some examples im talking about .   http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=24507   http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/steam/ruby/rubygallery.htm