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Southern Region Classes

Thank you for Greg Scott to provide the following information:

The TOPS number included with these codes serve as the 1972 class number these units carried, as these are the classes that most people know these units as. Subsiquent renumberings have taken place.

Some of the SR codes at the bottom of this list never carried a TOPS number, because they were withdrawn before 1968.

SR Code TOPS Class Explanation
6S 201 Short Framed Unit
6L 202 Long Framed Unit
6B 203 Buffet Units
5L 203 Long Framed Unit (following removal of buffet car)
3T 204 Tonbridge Units
3B 205 Berkshire Unit
2H 205 Hampshire Unit (First Build)
3H 205 Hampshire Unit (Second Build)
3R 206 Redhill - Reading Unit
3D 207 Oxted Unit
2BIL 401 Bi-lavatory Unit
2HAL 402 Half-Lavatory Unit
2PAN 402 Pantry Unit (later classification)
5BEL 403 Brighton Belle Unit
4COR 404 Corridor Unit
4SUB 405 Suburban Unit
4BEP 410 Buffet Electro-Pneumatic Unit
3CEP 411 Corridor Electro-Pneumatic Unit (Modified units)
4CEP 411 Corridor Electro-Pneumatic Unit
4CAP 413 Coastaway Unit
2HAP 414 Half-Lavatory Electro-Pneumatic Unit
4EPB 415 Electro-Pneumatic Unit
2EPB 416 Electro-Pneumatic Unit
2SAP 418 Second Class Electro-Pneumatic Unit
MLV 419 Motor Luggage Van
4BIG 420 Buffet Brighton Unit
3COP 421 Coastaway Open Plan (Modified Cl. 422 units)
4CIG 421 Corridor Brighton Unit
8DIG 422 Dedicated Brighton Unit
4VEP 423 Vestibule Electro-Pneumatic Unit
4VEG 427 Vestibule Electro-Pneumatic Gatwick Express Unit
4REP 430 Restaurant Electro-Pneumatic Unit
6REP 431 Restaurant Electro-Pneumatic Unit
5WES 442 Wessex Electric Unit
4PEP 445 Prototype Electro-Pneumatic Unit
2PEP 446 Prototype Electro-Pneumatic Unit
4HIT 455 ?
4JOP 458 South West Trains Units
8GAT 460 Gatwick Express Units
8VAB 480 Vestibule Electro-Pneumatic Unit
4TEP 482 Temporary Electro-Pneumatic Unit
4VEC 485 Vectis (Isle of Wight) Unit
3TIS 486 Vectis (Isle of Wight) Unit
GLV 489 Gatwick Express Motor Luggage Van
4TC 491 Trailer Control Unit
3TC 492 Trailer Control Unit (Original units)
5TC 492 Trailer Control Unit (Reformed units)
TLV 499 Trailer Luggage Van
2NOL None No Lavatory Unit
2WIM None Wimbledon Unit
3SUB None Suburban Unit
4BUF None Buffet Unit
4DD N / A Double Deck Unit
4GRI None Griddle Unit
4LAV None Lavatory Unit
4PUL None Pullman Unit
4RES None Restaurant Unit
6CIT None City Unit
6COR None Corridor Unit
6PAN None Pantry Unit
6PUL None Pullman Unit
6TC None Trailer Control
7TC None Trailer Control
8MIG N / A Brighton Unit with Miniature Buffet Loco-hauled carriages

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