SR Class 2Nol

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The Southern Railway (SR) gave the designation 2Nol 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.

[edit] Construction

The 2Nol (2-car No Lavatory stock, numbers 1813-1890) units were built in 1935-1936 by taking former LSWR carriage bodies, lengthening them, and placing them on new underframes. They were intended for use on slow services on the South Coast and in South London.

[edit] Formations

Initial formations of these units were as follows (carriages were not necessarily formed in numerical order):

Unit Numbers DMBT DTC
1813-1823 9861-9871 9940-9950
1824-1862 9872-9910 9961-9999
1863-1882 8596-8615 9920-9939
1883-1890 9781-9788 9913-9919

[edit] Withdrawal

The majority of these units were withdrawn in the mid-1950s, when the old bodies were scrapped and the underframes were re-used for new 2EPB and 2Hap units.