#3057
Composite Corridor
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company· from 1952· corridor coach with multiple classes of passenger accomodation
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BR Mk1 CK: Dave coxon at English Wikipedia· Public domain
what is it?
The Composite Corridor (or CK) is a railway coach with a number of compartments, some of which are standard class (previously second, née third class) and some first class, linked by a side corridor.
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 74 years ago, in 1952.
- 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
- 1952
- in service from
- 1952
- number built
- 1,268
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Metro-Cammell
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 19.5 m
- capacity
- 48 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5156737, Wikipedia: Composite Corridor (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.