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|construc = BR Swindon
|status = In use
|carno = 3109W3109|livery = BR Chocolate & Cream|othernos = M3109, W310999123, 123 'Grace'
|designed =
|diagram = 73
|lot = 30697
|cartype = [[:Category: Carriage Type FO|FO]]
|topscode = [[:Category: Carriage Type FO|AD11]]
|seats =
|built = 1961
|years1 = 1984
|events1 = Preserved on SVR|years2 = 1996|events2 = Arrived on SVR
|years3 =
|events3 =
|events6 =
}}[[File:Seating_bay,_3109.jpg|thumb|300px|right|3109 currently runs as a Restaurant Car in the Severn Valley Limited.]]
BR Mk 1 First Open (FO) No 3109 was built 1961 1962-3 at Swindon to diagram number 73 (AD103), lot number 30697. It was initially preserved ==Service and preservation==3109 entered service as M3109 in BR's Midland region in January 1963.<ref name=Longworth>[[Bibliography#Other References|Longworth (2013)]] p.44.</ref> In November 1984 it received a Private Owner number, PULR99123, later shortened to 123 and named 'Grace' as part of Waterman Railways charter fleet at Bounds Green. It was one of three carriages, together with [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR#Carriages formerly at the SVR but later moved elsewhere | FO 3106]] and [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR#Carriages scrapped while at the SVR | RBR 1678]], which were acquired from there by the SVR in 1996, initially on lease but subsequently purchased by [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC | SVR(H)]].
It is usually used by the SVR as a restaurant vehicle, having seen use in both the Severn Valley Limited and Severn Valley Venturer dining sets.
