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Photo of BGP 4236 added. This carriage was swapped for 24105. Explanatory note added to text.
Wagon Company (BRCW). It seated 64 passengers in one large saloon, with an entrance vestibule at each end and two toilets at one end. In the early 1960s the carriage was modified to act as the control and apparatus car in a mobile control train for use in the event of war and was based at York with 43600. The modification included the blanking out of many windows and the fitting of double doors to one side.
==24105 in Preservation==
24105 was originally purchased for preservation by VSOE, then based at Carnforth, but arrived on the SVR in 19801982, having been swapped for BGP 4236. It spent many years at Bewdley serving as The Erlestoke Manor Fund's sales shop, before ownership transferred to the LNER(SVR) Coach Fund, for restoration and trafficas a wheelchair accessible open third. The restoration was made possible by much commercial and private sponsorship, a large public contribution raised via sales and sponsored walks, and substantial donations from Bewdley Round Table, The SVR Company and the SVR Association.
Modifications to its original Diagram 186 gave access for up to four wheelchairs, (with 46 ordinary seats) by retaining the control train double door modification and the fitting of an extra half-door on the opposite side to facilitate access. A single toilet, described by a wheelchair user as "tight but manageable" completed the interior. The missing windows were reinstated and much new teak paneling fitted to the exterior. The entirely new but authentic looking interior included a new floor, ceiling and green and grey Rexine wall cladding. It was completed with oval mirrors, coathooks, BR pattern wall lamps and luggage racks. It was also equipped with fairly accurate reproductions of the Gresley "High Backed" seats. It entered traffic in 1997.
Replacement_seat_frames_and_ends_Feb_17.jpg|Replacement seat ends and frames 2017
Wheelchair_open_3rd_24105_in_Works.jpg|24105 in Kidderminster C&W Works 7/3/2017. Photo W Parker
4236_Dave_Massey.jpg|LNER BGP 4236, SVR resident from 1975 to 1982 was swapped for 24105. Photo D Massey
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