GWR 6045 Bow-end Composite

GWRGreat Western Railway 6045 Bow-end CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard.
6045 Shewing new body panels on refurbished framework.
Built By	GWRGreat Western Railway Swindon
Status	In service
Number	6045
Other numbers	DW150293
History
Built	1928
Designed By	CollettCharles Benjamin Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1922-1941
Diagram	E132
Lot	1382
Type	CK
Length	57ft 4½in
Weight	31t 3cwt
Seats	24 first, 24 third
1962	To departmental service
1973	Preserved on SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society
2014	Restoration commenced
2020	Restoration completed
Carriages

Partially restored first class compartment

GWRGreat Western Railway 6045 is a 57' Corridor CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard. (CK) carriage, having four first class compartments to seat 24 passengers and three third class compartments also to seat 24 passengers. It was built in 1928 to Lot 1392, Diagram E132, an early CollettCharles Benjamin Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1922-1941 design having flush sides and bow ends. It also has toilets at each end and external doors to each compartment on the non-corridor side. It is the only survivor of 51 built.

6045 in departmental service

It was converted to a BTU Staff & Dormitory Coach in 1962 and saw DepartmentalRolling stock used for the railway’s own functions (engineering etc.) rather than for general passenger or goods traffic. use as No DW 150293.

6045 in preservation

It arrived on the SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society on 6 January 1973 from Bristol, having been bought by the Great Western (SVR) Association. Since then it had been stored in various locations on the SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society, but moved to Bewdley Down Yard in 2014 for restoration to begin. Work began in earnest in 2015; progress on the restoration was shown on the Great Western (SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society) Association website. In October 2018 the coach moved to Carriage Repair Works at Kidderminster.

In January 2020 the GW(SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society)A announced plans for a launch train on Sunday 31 May 2020 to celebrate the entry of 6045 into service. The restoration was completed in April 2020, although plans for the launch train were put on hold by the 2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

See also

• List of carriages

References

Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey
SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society Stock Book Ninth Edition
Great Western (SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society) Association

Links

• 6045 on Railway Heritage Register On-Line
• 6045 on gw-svr-a.org.uk
• Restoration progress on gw-svr-a.org.uk