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Now a Kitchen Car
|years1 = 1999
|events1 = Arrived on SVR
|years2 = 2022|events2 = Outshopped as a Kitchen Car
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1667 arrived on the SVR in December 1999 ex Rail Charter Services, to replace sister carriage [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR#Carriages scrapped while at the SVR|1678]].<ref>Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey</ref> Shortly after arrival it received a repaint and had the steam heating reinstated.<ref>SVR News 133</ref> It initially served as spare kitchen car, but was brought into service just before the 2001 Autumn Steam Gala when regular Kitchen Car 1682 was 'red carded' with gas plumbing issues.<ref>SVR News 140</ref>
By 2007 1667 had been fully restored, including two years of internal remodeling carried out at Bewdley in 2004-05.<ref>SVR News 153</ref> It now was further remodelled in 2022 and branded a Kitchen Car, with the bar and all seating removed.<ref>SVR News 218, Summer 2022, p. 44</ref> It forms part of the [[Severn Valley Limited]] dining set in BR(W) livery as W1667 (a number that it did not carry in service). It is owned by [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC | SVR(H)]].
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