#5916
British Rail Mark 5
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2019· railway carriages used by Caledonian sleeper
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CAF mk5 sleeper coach: Colin MacInnes· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The British Rail Mark 5 is the designation given to locomotive-hauled rail carriages built by Spanish manufacturer CAF for operation with Caledonian Sleeper.
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 7 years ago, in 2019.
- 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).
- 22.2 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2019
- in service from
- 2019
- number built
- 75
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- Caledonian Sleeper
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 22.2 m
- weight
- 43 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q101096676, Wikipedia: British Rail Mark 5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.