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Standard Corridor
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company· from 1951· British mid-20th century railway carriage
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BR Mk1 SK: Dave coxon at English Wikipedia· Public domain
what is it?
The Second Corridor (previously Third Corridor) type of railway carriage was one of the standard mid-20th century designs, and was coded SK (previously TK) by the LNER and BR, and CF by the LMS. The layout of the coach was a number of compartments, all of which were second class (known as third class until 1956), linked by a side corridor. The British Railways Mark 1 SK was the most numerous carriage design ever built in the United Kingdom. The original number series carried was 24000–26217.
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 75 years ago, in 1951.
- 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 75 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1951
- in service from
- 1951
- status
- in service
- number built
- 2,168
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Gloucester 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
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q7598211, Wikipedia: Standard Corridor (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.