SR Maunsell carriage

what is it?

The Southern Railway Maunsell carriage was the first design family of railway carriages built by Richard Maunsell for the Southern Railway (SR) in the United Kingdom. Following grouping in 1923, SR had continued to build carriages to the designs of the previous three main companies (the London and South Western Railway, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and South Eastern and Chatham Railway railways), and the Maunsell carriage was intended to be the standard carriage design for use across the Southern Railway lines, incorporating the best features of each of the former companies' designs. The Southern Railway believed in sets of carriages where groups of carriages stayed together for long periods of time.

who runs it

Southern RailwayBritish RailSRSouthern Region of British Railways

base stats

• built 1,200made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

• 🎂First built 100 years ago, in 1926.
• 📏18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
• ⌛Served for 41 years (1926–1967).

carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.

spec sheet

built

1926

in service from

1926

retired

1967

status

retired

number built

1,200

kind

carriage / wagon

origin

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

builders

Ashford Works, Eastleigh Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works, Lancing Carriage Works

operators

Southern Railway, British Rail, Southern Region of British Railways

top speed

—

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

length

18 m

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.