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GWR 9653 is a Collett bow-ended Restaurant Third Open (RTO) carriage. It was built in October 1925 as lot number 1359 to Diagram H32, and initially formed one end of three-car articulated (“Tri-art”) dining set H32. The articulated sets were an attempt to reduce train weights by means of two carriages sharing a single bogie. However the relative lack of flexibility of this arrangement, and the introduction of more powerful locomotives, led to the sets being rebuilt as three single units in 1937.