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British Rail Mark 2
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Rail Engineering Limited· from 1964· British railway passenger carriages
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Taunton - Riviera Trains Mk2f 3356: Geof Sheppard· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Driving Brake Standard Open: Original uploader was Our Phellap at en.wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Mark 2 family of railway carriages are British Rail's second design of carriages. They were built by British Rail workshops (from 1969 British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL)) between 1964 and 1975 and were of steel construction.
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 62 years ago, in 1964.
- 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.
- Still in service after 62 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1964
- in service from
- 1964
- status
- in service
- number built
- 1,876
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- British Rail Engineering Limited
- operators
- DB Cargo UK, Direct Rail Services, Network Rail, Riviera Trains, West Coast Railway Company, British Rail, Israel Railways
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 19.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q3301225, Wikipedia: British Rail Mark 2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.