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Revision as of 14:25, 9 April 2019

BRBritish Rail or British Railways 16169 CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard. Corridor
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BRBritish Rail or British Railways CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard. Corridor 16169 (centre)
Built By BRBritish Rail or British Railways Derby
Status Overhaul in progress
Number M16169
Livery n/a (was BRBritish Rail or British Railways Maroon)
Other numbers M7169, SC7169
History
Built 1961
Diagram 126
Lot 30665
Type CK
TOPS code AA31
Seats 24 first, 18 standard
1989 Preserved on SVRSevern Valley Railway

Carriages

16169 is a BRBritish Rail or British Railways Mark 1 Corridor CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard. (CK) carriage. The term 'composite' refers to the use of more than one class of seating, in this case four first class compartments and three second class compartments. For the second class compartments, BRBritish Rail or British Railways followed the seating plans used by the pre-nationalisation companies in each region, with LMR and ER carriages generally having seats with arm rests allowing six passengers per compartment while WR and SRSouthern Railway carriages had no arm rests permitting 8 passengers per compartment.[1]

Service and preservation

16169 was built at Derby in 1961 to diagram number 126 (AA201), lot number 30665. It entered service in the Midland region.[2] In 1983 it was renumbered as M7169, being reallocated to the Scottish region in January 1986.[3]

16169 was withdrawn from service by BRBritish Rail or British Railways at Heaton, Newcastle in 1988, where it had been in use on cross-country services. It arrived on the SVRSevern Valley Railway in August 1989 been purchased by SVR(H).[1] It has seen use in the BRBritish Rail or British Railways Maroon set, but by 2006 was described by the Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey as "externally very shabby and due for refurbishment". In 2007 it was withdrawn from service and was photographed in July 2015 stored in Kidderminster Carriage Shed awaiting overhaul.

In March 2017 16169 was moved outside Kidderminster Carriage Works, initially for welding repairs. A heavy overhaul is underway, with a hoped for conclusion in 2018.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book 9th Edition
  2. Longworth (2013) p.112.
  3. Longworth (2013) p.80.
  4. SVRSevern Valley Railway News 200, Winter 2017

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