BR 16169 Composite Corridor

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BRBritish Rail or British Railways CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard. Corridor 16169 (centre)

BRBritish Rail or British Railways Mark 1 Corridor CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard. (CK) 16169 was built at Derby in 1961 to diagram number 126, lot number 30665. In 1984 it was renumbered as 7169.

16169 arrived on the SVRSevern Valley Railway in August 1989 from Heaton, Newcastle having been purchased by SVR(H). It has seen use in the BRBritish Rail or British Railways Maroon set, but by 2006 was described by the Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey as "externally very shabby and due for refurbishment".

Sources

Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey
SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition

Links

16169 on vintagecarriagestrust.org

See also

List of carriages

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