BR 4545 Tourist Standard Open

BRBritish Rail or British Railways 4545 Tourist Standard Open
BRBritish Rail or British Railways Tourist Standard Open 4545
Built By	BRBritish Rail or British Railways York
Status	In service
Number	E4545
Livery	BRBritish Rail or British Railways Crimson & Cream
Other numbers	NE4545
History
Built	1956
Diagram	93
Lot	30243
Type	TSO
TOPS code	AC21
Seats	64 standard
1983	Preserved on SVRSevern Valley Railway
Carriages

4545 is a BRBritish Rail or British Railways Mark 1 Tourist Standard Open (TSO). The ‘Open Second’ seats 64 passengers at tables, with three cross-vestibules to enable speedier loading and unloading of passengers.

Service and preservation

4545 was built at York in 1956 to diagram number 93 (AC204), lot number 30243. It went into service on the Eastern Region in March 1957, where it remained apart from an allocation to the Northeast region between January 1966 and January 1968.

4545 arrived on the SVRSevern Valley Railway on 14 March 1983 from Neville Hill, Leeds. It is used in Set C, the BRBritish Rail or British Railways Crimson & Cream running set, and is owned by SVR(H).

See also

• List of carriages

References

Links

• 4545 on Railway Heritage Register On-Line