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Brake Standard Open (Micro-Buffet)
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Mark 1: BR Doncaster & Wolverton· from 1952· type of Railway Carriage
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. British Rail Mark 1 BSOT 9015: No machine-readable author provided. Our Phellap~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
A Brake Standard Open (Micro-Buffet), often abbreviated to BSOT or BSO(T), is a type of railway carriage used by British Rail. These coaches were converted from a Brake Standard Open (BSO), by replacing one passenger seating bay with a counter for serving food, and space for a trolley for light refreshments. The toilet was removed and the space converted to a steward's prep-room and store.
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.
- 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
- 26
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Mark 1: BR Doncaster & Wolverton
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 19.5 m
- capacity
- 31 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4956028, Wikipedia: Brake Standard Open (Micro-Buffet) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.