Sleeper Either Class with Pantry
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A Sleeper Either Class with Pantry, often abbreviated to SLEP, is a type of railway carriage used by British Rail.
A total of 120 vehicles, numbered 10500-10619, were built at Derby Works from 1982-1983 to the Mark 3A profile. Along with the similar SLE, they were introduced to replace the ageing fleet of Mark 1 vehicles built to several designs, which dated from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
As of 2006, the only mainline operators of these type of carriages are First Great Western and First ScotRail. The former uses them in the consist of the Night Riviera from London Paddington to Penzance. The latter uses them in the consist of the Caledonian Sleeper from London Euston to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William.
Several carriages have found a new lease of life on heritage railways, where they provide sleeping accommodation for volunteers.
| Coaching stock of British Rail Mark 1 - Mark 2 - Mark 3 - Mark 4 |
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| Passenger coaches | |||
| Mark 1: | BCK - BFK - BSK - BSO - BSOT - CK - FK - FO - RB - RBR - RF - RKB - RMB RU - SK - SLC - SLF - SLSTP - SO - TSO |
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| Mark 2: | BFK - BSK - BSO - BSOT - BUO - DBSO - FK - FO - FOT - PFB - PFK - PFP RFB - RLO - RMBF - RSS - SK - SO - TSO - TSOT |
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| Mark 3: | BFO - CO - FO - RFM - SLE - SLEP - TSO - TSOB (Locomotive-hauled) TF - TGS - TRB - TRFB - TRFK - TRSB - TS (HST trailers) |
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| Mark 4: | FO - RBF - RSB - TSO - TSOE | ||
| Non-passenger coaches | |||
| Mark 1 | BG - BPOT - BV - Courier - GUV - PCV - POS - POT | ||
| Mark 3 & 4: | DVT | edit | |
