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Coaching stock of British Rail. Pages in category "British Rail coaching stock" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
British Rail coaching stock (34 P) G. Great Western Railway coaching stock (6 P) Pages in category "Railway coaches of the United Kingdom" The following 8 pages are ...
The coaches were fitted with non-automatic screw couplers and gangwayed stock made use of scissors-type British Standard pattern corridor connection (as also used on the Great Western Railway). Most coaches ran on two four-wheel bogies which were of a 9 ft 0 in wheelbase single bolster design which hardly changed for the whole of the company's ...
British Railways coach designations were a series of letter-codes used to identify different types of coaches, both passenger carrying and non-passenger carrying stock (NPCS). The code was generally painted on the end of the coach but non-gangwayed stock had the code painted on the side. [1] They have been superseded by TOPS design codes. [2]
Observation car E1719E, here preserved in British Railways maroon livery, viewed from the corridor end Restored, teak-bodied pigeon van BGP 4050 at Loughborough. In 1937, the LNER built two observation coaches at Doncaster Works for use on The Coronation express passenger train during the summer months.
The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1970s. A variant of the Mark 3 became the rolling stock for the High Speed Train (HST). Originally conceived as locomotive-hauled coaching stock, the first coaches built were for the prototype HST in 1972.
British Rail: Diesel 70 110 1 1 142: Pacer: 75 120 1 2 Lumo: 803: AT300: AC electric 125 200 5 5 Merseyrail: 777/0: METRO: DC electric 75 120 46 4 Third rail mode only 777/1: 7 Third rail mode - full top speed, battery mode - 62 mph / 100 km/h Network Rail: 153: Sprinter: Diesel 75 120 4 1 Track inspection [27] 950: 1 2 Test train based on ...
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York