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}}The only surviving vehicle designed for, and the only complete vehicle from , the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway, this Open 'A' four plank open was built in 1902 by Renshaws of Stoke-On-Trent as B&MR number 197. The body only of BMR coach no. 111 (originally a Midland Railway vehicle) also survives.<ref>[http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=5153 BMR Five Compartment coach no. 111 on the Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey Project database]</ref>
197 was one of 55 B&MR steel framed opens fitted with 'OK' oil axle boxes and buffers by the GWR at the 1923 grouping and one of only three to survive beyond the 1930s, eventually being condemned and apparently sold to the War Department or Admiralty in 1944 and renumbered RNAD233. Hidden from public view within the Royal Navy's Armament Depot at Gosport for over 40 years, it was bought at auction by the [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]] in 1990.<ref>[http://www.gwr813.org/pagen1.html GWR 813 Preservation Fund Newsletter Summer 1997]</ref> Shortly after arrival on 14 September, it was returned to Brecon & Merthyr livery which comprises light grey woodwork with black chassis and body strapping, and white lettering with red shading.<ref>SVR News 102</ref>