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}}[[File:Seating_bay,_3109.jpg|thumb|300px|right|3109 currently runs in use as a Restaurant Car in the Severn Valley Limited.]]
BR Mk 1 First Open (FO) No 3109 was built 1962-3 at Swindon to diagram number 73 (AD103), lot number 30697.
3109 entered service as M3109 in BR's Midland region in January 1963.<ref name=Longworth>[[Bibliography#Other References|Longworth (2013)]] p.44.</ref> In November 1984 it received a Private Owner number, PULR99123, later shortened to 123 and named 'Grace' as part of Waterman Railways charter fleet at Bounds Green. It was one of three carriages, together with [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR#Carriages formerly at the SVR but later moved elsewhere | FO 3106]] and [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR#Carriages scrapped while at the SVR | RBR 1678]], which were acquired from there by the SVR in 1996, initially on lease but subsequently purchased by [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC | SVR(H)]].
It is usually has regularly been used by the SVR as a restaurant vehicle, having seen use in formed part of both the Severn Valley Limited and Severn Valley Venturer dining sets. {{As of|2019}} it has been de-classified and transferred into general passenger service.
==See also==
==References==
<references/>
Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey<br>
SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition
==Links==
*[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=1228 3109 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]<br>
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