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what is it?
Second Open or Standard Open (coded SO) is a British coach designation for open-saloon second class (later standard class) coaches with 2+1 abreast seating, usually seating 48 passengers. Second class coaches with more conventional 2+2 abreast seating were designated Tourist Standard Open (TSO) seating 64 passengers. There were a number of variations.
who runs it
base stats
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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1963
- in service from
- 1963
- number built
- 139
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- BR Derby
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- —
- length
- 19.5 m
- capacity
- 48 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7598285, Wikipedia: Standard Open (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.