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Brake Standard Open
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company· from 1955· designation of British railway carriage
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BR Mk1 BSO: Dave coxon at English Wikipedia· Public domain
what is it?
A Brake Standard Open (BSO) is a type of railway carriage used by British Rail. Both Mark 1 and Mark 2 types were built. Each consists of a standard class open passenger saloon with a centre aisle, a guard's compartment with hand brake and a lockable luggage compartment.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- 20.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1955
- in service from
- 1955
- number built
- 340
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 20.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4956027, Wikipedia: Brake Standard Open (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.