British Rail Mark 1 is the family designation for the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways (BR) from 1951 until 1974, now used only for charter services on the main lines or on preserved railways.

The Restaurant Miniature Buffet (or RMB) is a British Railways Mark 1 railway coach.

Jun 22, 2016 · Recently I had been looking through RM-Web for BR Mk1 coach info and consists. Turns out there isn't a dedicated thread to Mk1's?! There are multiple smaller threads, i.e. on liveries, specific variants, specific region consists, but no "ge...

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. From 1983, those carriages in the 25xxx and 26xxx series were renumbered 18xxx and 19xxx.

Nov 18, 2011 · RB(K) was a c1970 conversion from RF. The LMR did not receive RU vehicles but instead had restaurant cars with 24 first class seats (built 1961-2). Almost all were rebuilt as restaurant buffet cars c1969-70 and reclassified RB(K) often written simply as RBK.

Oct 25, 2015 · by 1980 there was a dearth of Scottish Region allocated Restaurant Car's full stop - almost all internal services having gone over to purely Mk1 RMB's - in fact I can find only one non anglo-scot service (Edinburgh-Inverness & Return) that had anything other than an RMB - and that was an RBR.

The Mk1 became the standard design for all new coaches between 1951 and 1964. Built using standard components - frame, coach ends and bogies - the body sides constructed from panelled sections with standard door and window fittings.

These carriages were initially ordered by the London Midland Region of BR to D17 with B1 bogies. They were built in two batches, the first four coaches by BRCW, the remainder being shared between the BR works at Ashford and Swindon. They were unique in BR catering coach designs in having passenger entrance doors instead of access

May 19, 2013 · as mike said, 325 was a BR mk1 RF (dia. 17) - there's mention of it in parkin's mk1 book in that it ran in lined maroon but was never painted/renumbered into the full train. 1979 P5 book states that it (along with the mk1 special build 2900/2901/2902) was converted in 1977 from vac brake/steam heat to air brake/ETH and B5 bogies.