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Sleeper Either Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Rail Engineering Limited· from 1982· class of British sleeping car
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. British Rail Mark 3A SLE 10727 at Meldon: No machine-readable author provided. Our Phellap~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. British Rail Mark 3A SLEP 10590 at Penzane: No machine-readable author provided. Our Phellap~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
A Sleeper Either class (SLE) and Sleeper Either class with Pantry (SLEP) are a type of railway sleeping car used in Great Britain. Some units were later modified for better wheelchair access as Sleeper Either class Disabled (SLED). A smaller number reused in Denmark were classified as WLABr.
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 44 years ago, in 1982.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22.9 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1982
- in service from
- 1982
- number built
- 208
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- British Rail Engineering Limited
- operators
- Great Western Railway, British Rail
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 22.9 m
- weight
- 43 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q7539806, Wikipedia: Sleeper Either Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.