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The SVR was home to three '''ex-Longmoor Military Railway saloons''' between 1971 and 1985. They arrived on loan from the Army's Transport Trust together with [[600|LMR 600 Gordon]].
Following the closure of the LMR[[:Category:Rolling stock associated with the Longmoor Military Railway|Longmoor Military Railway]], a number of items of rolling stock were stored at Liss, adjacent to the Waterloo-Portsmouth main line, during 1971. [[600|600 Gordon]] and the three saloons were moved from Liss to Didcot on 12-13 September 1971 for a joint GWS / BR Open Day on 18 September. On Monday 20 September, Gordon and the three saloons were moved by rail to Bewdley. Two other carriages were collected on the way, [[LMS 26986 Brake Third Corridor|LMS Brake Third 26986]] from Worcester and [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR|GCR 'Barnum' Third Open 5664]] from Kidderminster (then still a BR yard).<ref name=SVR21>SVR News 21, pp 24-26</ref>
The three Saloons were originally delivered in LMR blue livery, but during their time at the SVR all were repainted for filming purposes. They appeared in GWR livery in [[God's Wonderful Railway]] (1980) as pictured below, and were also featured in [[The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady]] (1984) among others.
*[http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=332 Railway Heritage Register Online: SECR 177 Open First (later Family Saloon) built 1900] (3006)
*[http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=304 Railway Heritage Register Online: LSWR 11 Invalid Saloon built 1910] (3007)
[[Category:Rolling stock associated with the Longmoor Military Railway]]
