Buses often appear as settings, or sometimes even characters, in works of fiction. This is a list of named buses which were important story elements in notable works of fiction, including books, films and television series.
The Battle Bus, from Fortnite
Bus 25/25, from the 1994 film Speed
Catbus, a sentient bus from the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro
"Cyclops", a nucelar-powered bus from the 1976 film The Big Bus
"Bertie the Bus" and "Bulgy the Double-Decker Bus", from The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends.
"Doris", the fictional band's tour bus in the 2000 film Almost Famous.
The Knight Bus, which appears in several of the Harry Potter books and films
The Magic School Bus
"Priscilla", the eponymous bus in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
"Sweetheart", in John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus
"Tayo", "Rogi", "Lani", and "Gani", bus characters from the Korean animated children's show, Tayo the Little Bus.
Hovercraft/anti-gravity vehicles
Hoverboard
Snowspeeder
Speeder bike
Fast attack (Javelin, Land Speeder, etc.) and main battle platforms (Astraeus, Repulsor, etc.) - Warhammer 40000
Magical vehicles
Broomstick
Catbus
The Chariot of Morgan Mwynfawr
Killdozer
Magic carpet
Mortar (bowl)
Seven-league boots
Ruby slippers
Cinderella's pumpkin coach
Santa's sleigh
The Yellow Submarine
Mecha
Big Darrell - OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
Big O - The Big O
E-frame - Exosquad
Evangelions - Neon Genesis Evangelion
Mobile weapons - Gundam
Tripod - three-legged Martian fighting machine, armed with a heat-ray, The War of the Worlds
VF-1 Valkyrie - variable geometry space fighter from Robotech (TV series)
Voltron
Z-Mech - Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
Metal Gear robotic war engines - Metal Gear
BattleMechs - bipedal walker battle robots from BattleTech game series.
Titans, smaller Imperial Knights and their counterparts of other races - Warhammer 40000
Heavy Gears - bipedal warsuits from a Heavy Gear science fiction game universe
Railroads and trains
Blaine the train - the Dark Tower by Steven King
Hooterville Cannonball - Petticoat Junction
The Quadrail trains - the Timothy Zahn series
Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
The Wanderer - The Wild Wild West
Wabash Cannonball
Baby Train
Snowpiercer
Supertrain
Galaxy Express 999
Tachypomp
Blaine the Mono
The Polar Express
The Hogwarts Express - Harry Potter
The Atlantic Express - Avalanche Express
Central Pacific Railroad No. 131 - Back to the Future Part III
The Transcontinental Express - The Cassandra Crossing
The Indian Valley Railroad - Shining Time Station and Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Wilson, Brewster and Koko - Chuggington
Azul - Dora the Explorer
Casey Junior - Dumbo (1941) and Dumbo (2019)
Puffa and Little Owl - TUGS
Driver Dan's Story Train
The Greendale Rocket and The Pencaster Flyer - Postman Pat
Ivor the Engine
The Ninky Nonk - In the Night Garden
The Railway Series
There are many railway and other 'vehicle' characters in The Railway Series children's books by Rev. W. Awdry. For a list, please see:
List of characters in The Railway Series
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the TV spin-off from The Railway Series. As such, it shares many characters with the original books but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of lists:
List of Thomas & Friends characters
List of Thomas & Friends film characters
AFVs
Tanks
Bolo - AI armored super-heavy tank
Griffon tank - Warhammer 40000
RX-75 Guntank - Mobile Suit Gundam
Leman Russ - a main battle tank of Astra Militarum, backbone armed force of Imperium of Humankind from Warhammer 40000
Baneblade, Fellblade and their variants - super heavy tanks from Warhammer 40000
Other
Howl's Moving Castle
TARDIS
B-Ped - Teen Titans
Farcaster - Hyperion Cantos
Time Tunnel - The Time Tunnel
Transporter - Star Trek
Time machine - novella "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells
Laputa - Gulliver's Travels and Castle in the Sky
Steam Castle - Steamboy
Manhattan Island - Cities in Flight
Death City - Soul Eater (anime but not manga)
2019 Spinner - self-contained lift, Blade Runner 1982 design by Syd Mead
Supercar - Supercar
See also
The following are lists of mixed types of vehicles, not otherwise categorized above:
Literature
Known Space#Technology
List of stories featuring nuclear pulse propulsion
Intelligent car
Film
List of James Bond vehicles
List of Star Wars air, aquatic, and ground vehicles