BR 16169 Composite Corridor

BR 16169 Composite Corridor
BR Composite Corridor 16169 (centre)
Built By	BR Derby
Status	Stored
Number	16169
Other numbers	M16169, 7169
History
Built	1961
Diagram	126
Lot	30665
Type	CK
Seats	24 first, 18 standard
1989	Preserved on SVR
Carriages

16169 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 second class compartments, BR 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.

16169 was built at Derby in 1961 to diagram number 126, lot number 30665. In 1984 it was renumbered as 7169.

16169 was withdrawn from service by BR at Heaton, Newcastle in 1988, where it had been in use on cross-country services. It arrived on the SVR in August 1989 been purchased by SVR(H). It has seen use in the BR Maroon set, but by 2006 was described by the Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey as "externally very shabby and due for refurbishment". When photographed in July 2015 it was stored in Kidderminster Carriage Shed awaiting overhaul.

As of March 2017 16169 had been moved outside Kidderminster Carriage Works for welding repairs to its ends.

See also

• List of carriages

Links

• 16169 on vintagecarriagestrust.org