Category:Carriage Type BSK

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Carriage type BSK (Brake Second Corridor) designates a carriage with a Guard's compartment, together with second (later standard) class passenger compartments accessed from a corridor.

Following the introduction of TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. in the late 1960s, BRBritish Rail or British Railways carriages of this class were allocated the TOPS code AB21, denoting:

A: Passenger carrying stock
B: Gangwayed corridor brake
2: Second (later standard) class
1: BRBritish Rail or British Railways Mark 1 carriage

See also

List of Carriages