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This was achieved by linking the corridors of adjacent coaches using a "corridor connector". [3] The "Standard Corridor" thus became one of the standard mid-20th century designs of railway carriage. [4] The corridor coach was known on the European continent as the American system or American coach in the early 1900s. [5] [6]
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 ...
Most of the major railway companies also constructed non-gangwayed composite coaches for use on suburban lines, running under the designation of "CL" (as opposed to CK for the gangwayed version). These had a side corridor connecting all the compartments of one class to a central toilet, with a similar corridor connecting the compartments of the ...
The Second Corridor (previously Third Corridor) type of railway carriage was one of the standard mid-20th century designs, and was coded SK (previously TK) by the LNER and BR, and CF by the LMS. The layout of the coach was a number of compartments, all of which were second class (known as third class until 1956), linked by a side corridor.
The standard LNER corridor coach design was finalised in 1923, using a 60 ft underframe, though some for use on the Great Eastern were on 51 ft underframes. The LNER standard coach was in advance of those of the other three of the Big Four by virtue of the Pullman gangways and buckeye couplers. The wooden teak-panelled body with squared ...
When the guard was not so required, he kept the communicating doors locked. Passengers could still use the side-corridor within the coach to reach the toilet. [6] The gangway connections of the early GWR corridor coaches were offset to one side. [7] Some coaches intended for use at the ends of trains had the gangway connection fitted at one end ...
Multiple unit coaches originally distinguished between open and corridor types by adding the letter O or K at the end (for example, TSO or TSK), and also distinguished coaches with lavatories by adding the letter L at the end (for example DMBSOL) but these fell out of use when corridor stock became less common which enabled the codes to be ...
A Travelling Post Office coach. The passenger coaches of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were many and varied, ranging from four and six-wheeled vehicles for the original broad gauge line of 1838, through to bogie coaches up to 70 feet (21 m) long which were in service through to 1947. Vacuum brakes, bogies and through-corridors all came into ...