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}}'''16267 ''' is a '''BR Mark 1 Corridor Composite ''' (CK) carriage. The term 'composite' refers to the use of more than one class of seating, in this case four first class compartments and three second class compartments. For The practice of using mixed class carriages could be traced back to the days of stagecoaches, where passengers would pay different prices to sit inside or outside the stagecoach. After railway companies did away with second class in the late 1800s, composite carriages included both first and third class accommodation,<ref group="note">The law specified that third class accommodation should be provided, hence second class was no longer used.</ref> but by the time 16267 was built BR had rebranded the latter as second class, later to become standard class.  The Mk1 CK had a weight of 34 tons and was fitted with Commonwealth bogies. Features provided in the first class compartments included additional leg room, deeper cushions, curtains, extra reading lamps, carpets, magazine racks and more expensive veneers. The second class compartmentswere decorated with formica panels and had simpler bench seats with shallower upholstery, fewer lights, and plain linoleum flooring. BR also followed the seating plans used by the pre-nationalisation companies in each region, with LMR and ER carriages generally having seats with arm rests allowing six passengers per compartment while WR and SR carriages had no arm rests permitting 8 passengers per compartment. One toilet was provided in each end vestibule.<ref name=Stockbook>SVR Stock Book 9th Edition</ref>.  The middle second class compartment included an additional feature. The main window had hinges at the top of the frame and could be opened almost totally inwards, with hooks on the luggage racks to hold it in place while fully open. The compartment door was located directly opposite an external door on the other side of the corridor, with this arrangement enabling patients on stretchers to be loaded into the compartment easily from either side. At the time the Mk 1 stock was designed, rail was considered faster that road for long-distance journeys. One example of this type of use, a weekly booking from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads where patients were sent to convalesce near Yatton, continued until the CK stock was withdrawn in 1977, after which the journeys were made vial the M4 motorway<ref>SVR Charitable Trust</ref>.

16267 was built in 1963 at Derby to Diagram 126 (AA301), Lot 30730. It was the last Mk 1 CK of that Lot to be completed, thereby also becoming the last locomotive-hauled dual-class carriage to be builtin the UK as BR did not build any further Mk II or Mk III examples. It entered service in the Scottish region, in BR's maroon livery as used from 1958 onwards. It was later reallocated to the Eastern region in July 1966<ref name=Longworth>[[Bibliography#Other References|Longworth (2013)]] pp.113-114.</ref>.

16267 was withdrawn from service in at Neville Hill, Leeds in 1983, arriving having become surplus to requirements following the introduction of new High Speed Train stock. It was selected for preservation by the [[L.M.S. & B.R. Coach Department Sales Coach| L.M.S. & B.R. Coach Fund]] as being in excellent condition at the time as well as for its historical 'last one built' significance. However when the Fund's representatives arrived to examine it, it transpired that the Sales Department at Derby had failed to notify the depot and it was still in a train formation.  Having been inspected on its return, 16267 eventually arrived by rail on the SVR on 14 March 1983. It initially ran in its final Inter City blue and grey livery for some 18 months before being repainted at Bridgnorth in BR crimson and cream livery, notwithstanding that it was actually built too late to have carried it in service.<ref>SVR News 78</ref> In 1989 it received some minor welding below the 'stretcher window' and replacement of a number of the same yearformica panels, followed by a full repaint. It <ref>SVR News 92</ref> The moquette seating was replaced during the mid-1990s. The carriage then received a full refurbishment including a repaint at Kidderminster paint shop in 1999. 16267 normally forms part Two of the double-glazed window units had 'steamed up'; one was replaced by a single glazed example from [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR#Carriages scrapped while at the SVR|BR Crimson & Cream setMk 1 Buffet Restaurant (RBR) 1678]] which had been acquired in 1996 and dismantled for spares, while the other, the 'stretcher window', but was photographed in March 2015 in taken apart as the two panes were fortunately not sealed. Several stepboards were removed and the chassis behind them needle-gunned to remove scale. A complex roof/end/corner repair was also needed on one corner before 16267 received a rub down and repaint. Internally, all the veneered surfaces were rubbed down and revarnished.<ref>SVR News 152</ref> Other 'steamed up' double-glazed units were singled while 16267 and other carriages were stored out of use following the [[2007 Floods| 2007 storm damage]].<ref>SVR News 160</ref> In 2007 the BR Maroon setL.M.S. & B.R. It is owned by Coach Fund transferred ownership of its carriages including 16267 to the SVR Rolling Stock Trust (since renamed the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd | SVR Charitable Trust]]), following which it became a department within the Trust. In spring 2011 the buckeye couplings were replaced,<ref>SVR News 173</ref> and over the winter of 2013-14 seven door locks were also replaced. The following winter the luggage racks were re-netted.<ref>SVR News 186, 188</ref>  <gallerymode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">

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