Caledonian Sleeper (Mark 5 coaches, Class 92 and 73/9)

• The drawing's bogies (bogie round 2, 9 October 2026): no source read names the Mark 5s' bogie type or the Class 92's; both are laid out from photographs (layout only), so their details are indicative
• Coach types: Rail Engineer (2021) and the Platform 5 numbering cited by Wikipedia give 11 seated (15001-011), 10 club (15101-110), 14 accessible (15201-214) and 40 sleeper coaches (15301-340), 75 in all; Caledonian Sleeper's own page says 11 club cars and 12 accessible coaches, which add up to 74. CAF and Railway Pro say five coach types; Caledonian Sleeper says four
• Formation: RAIB (report 05/2020) gives the Lowlander as two portions of eight, Glasgow's at the front and Edinburgh's at the rear, each of six sleeper coaches, a club coach and a seating coach, the seated coach at the rear of the Glasgow portion. The order inside each portion (five sleeper coaches, the accessible coach, the club car, the seated coach) and which way each coach faces are estimated from photographs and enthusiasts' reports, and Caledonian Sleeper says formations vary with demand
• Locomotive lengths: 70 ft 1 in (21.36 m) over buffers for the Class 92, from DB Cargo Romania (which runs some of the class), with 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) high and 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) wide; 53 ft 8 in (16.36 m) for the Class 73: Wikipedia only
• Mark 5 height: not published by CAF, Caledonian Sleeper or the sources read; width 9 ft 0 in (2.75 m) from Rail Engineer (Wikipedia gives the same)
• Doors: one hinged plug door at each end of each coach side (Wikipedia: hinged plug; photographs); no source gives their positions or sizes
• Build dates: CAF built the coaches at Beasain and Irun in Spain; the first were on test in August 2017 (Railway Gazette) and the first rake reached Britain in January 2018 (RAIL). Platform 5 via Wikipedia gives 2016-18
• Top speed: GB Railfreight gives 90 mph (145 km/h) for both locomotive classes; Wikipedia gives 87 mph (140 km/h) for the Class 92 and DB Cargo Romania 140 km/h (87 mph). For the coaches CAF gives 160 km/h (99 mph), a sleeper coach's data plate 177 km/h (110 mph) and Wikipedia 125 mph (201 km/h)
• Class 92 builder: GB Railfreight says Brush/Bombardier; Wikipedia says ABB Transportation and Brush Traction at Loughborough, 46 built 1993-96
• Class 73/9 power: GB Railfreight gives an MTU engine of 1,600 hp; Rail Engineer gives 1,200 kW
• Which locomotive hauls which portion in Scotland isn't stated in the sources read, beyond the 73/9s hauling portions on lines without wires
• The coaches' owner: Caledonian Sleepers Rail Leasing Ltd (Lombard), per Railway Pro (2015), Rail Engineer (2021) and Companies House; Railway Gazette (2014) said they would be leased through Beacon Rail
• Class 99: GB Railfreight said in 2023 that its bi-mode Class 99s could replace the 92s and 73/9s once approved; no source read says they have
• The drawing: the Mark 5 coaches are drawn on the Chiltern drawing's Mark 5A body (69 ft 11 in (21.3 m), roof about 12 ft 6 in (3.82 m), bogies at 52 ft 6 in (16,000 mm) centres, 2 ft 8 in (820 mm) wheels), whose heights are themselves estimated from photographs; whether the sleeper coaches' bogie centres and heights match the Mark 5A's isn't published
• The drawing: each coach type's windows, doors, display and crescents are laid out from three-quarter photographs to about 1 ft 8 in (0.5 m); the club car's end A and the seated coach's near half are seen only obliquely, and the club car's galley end is assumed windowless
• The drawing: the Class 92's bogie centres (42 ft 5 in (12,930 mm), from the overall and bogie wheelbases) differ from Wikipedia's 41 ft 11 in (12,764 mm) pivot centres; its outline, cab, roof well, pantographs, bodyside height and underframe are estimated from photographs; the 2 ft 0 in (600 mm) buffers are an estimate
• The drawing: the Highland portions' Class 73/9s aren't drawn
• The drawing's Class 92 roof line and pantograph positions: read on two sweep-panorama photographs of 92016 and one from above of 92033, whose scales along the locomotive are known only locally, to about 10% (about 0.3 m at the pantographs)
• The Class 92's cab side, lower nose, lamp housing and yellow along the car (set HLR33b round 2, 28 October 2026): read on 92011 and 92016 side on and drawn at 0.80 of those photographs' window-height scale, as 92033 at Euston (2015) gives it on the 66 ft 2 in (20.16 m) body (0.78-0.81 by feature); its heights re-measured in round 3 on the same photograph's vertical scale (EXIF focal length and the body's length), to about 3% and 60 mm; the 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) published height (DB Cargo Romania, no qualifier; an earlier Wikipedia revision gave 13 ft 0 in (3.95 m) 'pantograph down') agrees with the cab roof's 12 ft 9 in (3.88 m) reading within that; the main roof not re-measured
• The Class 92's engine-room windows by cab 2 (set HLR33b round 3, 28 October 2026): their widths agree on two photographs, but only 92033 at Euston (2015) places them along the locomotive, and it puts the nearer one about 1 ft 8 in (520 mm) wide and about 175 mm further from cab 2 than drawn (to about 100 mm)
• The years of the former liveries come from Wikipedia's class article and the other sources listed, and haven't been checked against a second source.

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