#2448
SR Class 2-NOL
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Unknown builder· from 1934· class of 2-car inner-suburban EMU
what is it?
The Southern Railway (SR) gave the designation 2-NOL to the electric multiple units built during the 1930s from old London and South Western Railway carriage bodies on new underframes. None of these units survived long enough in British Rail ownership to be allocated a TOPS class.
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 92 years ago, in 1934.
- 39.3 m long: about 9 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 25 years (1934–1959).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1934
- in service from
- 1934
- retired
- 1959
- status
- retired
- number built
- 78
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Southern Railway, British Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 2-car set: DMBT, Driving Motor Brake Third–DTC, Driving Trailer Composite
- length
- 39.3 m
- capacity
- 24 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7392881, Wikipedia: SR Class 2-NOL (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.