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    UKDPT: Coaching Stock: DBSO

    Driving Trailer

    Driving Brake Standard Open

    A Driving Brake Standard Open (DBSO) is a type of railway carriage, converted to operate as a control car (not to be confused with DVTs as used in InterCity 225 sets). Fourteen such vehicles, numbered 9701 to 9714, were converted from Mark 2F Brake Standard Open (standard class coaches with brake van) carriages. Modifications included adding a driving cab and TDM equipment to allow a locomotive to be driven remotely. Using a system known as push–pull, the driver in the DBSO can drive the locomotive, even though it is at the rear of the train.

    Length 20.12m
    Width 2.82m
    Height 3.899m
    Introduced 1979
    Weight 33.5t

    Photo: Neil Thaler

    Number Altnumber Status Note Livery Depot Pool Owner
    9701 9528   NRL ZA QTRC NRL UK/DBSO UKCS/DBSO
    9702 9510   NRL ZA QTRC NRL UK/DBSO UKCS/DBSO
    9703 9517   NRL ZA QTRC NRL UK/DBSO UKCS/DBSO
    9708 9530   Structure Gauging Train coach NRL ZA QTRC NRL UK/DBSO UKCS/DBSO
    9714 9536   9104   Remote driving car NRL ZA QTRC NRL UK/DBSO UKCS/DBSO