Steam Memories: North Yorkshire Moors Railway Pickering

A few unpublished pictures around Pickering with

a focus on the carriage stock used

Above the Gresley observation car

The Gresley Teak set

Mk 1 Blood and Custard. The earlier coaches had

Veneered wooden furnishing but the latter group

from the mid fifties had laminate furnishing which

of course was much easier to maintain. I believe

last traunch fitted fluorescent lighting as opposed

to tungsten bulbs or as a past electrical engineering

colleague called the 'globes'

British Railways Mark 1 was the family designation for the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways. Following nationalisation in 1948, BR had continued to build carriages to the designs of the "Big Four" companies (the Great Western, Southern, London Midland and Scottish and London and North Eastern railways), and the Mark 1 was intended to be the standard carriage design for use across all lines, incorporating the best features of each of the former companies' designs. It was also designed to be much stronger than previous designs, to provide better protection for passengers in the event of an accident.
The Mk 1 coaches were built in two distinct tranches: the early vehicles (1951–60) and the 'Commonwealth' stock (named from the type of bogie used) from 1961 onwards.