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BR Mark 1 Brake Corridor Second (BSK) 34754 was built at Wolverton in 1955 to diagram number 182 of lot number 30157. It was later converted for use as a breakdown mess & tool van at Cambridge.<ref>Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey</ref>
34754 arrived on the SVR in November 1997 from Peterborough.<ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref> The body of this coach was put on the bogies of coach 34414 (the body of 34414 was scrapped). It carries the Departmental number ADB975128, and is owned by the SVR P.Way Fund, who restored and converted it to a driving trailer with 'Blue Star' multiple working equipment and driving desk fitted, with the intention it could be used to drive with the train locomotive at the rear. In practice that has not happened, and it sees use it as the Civil Engineers ' Mess and Tool Van.
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