BR Brake Corridor Composite 21249
Brake Corridor CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard. 21249 was built at Swindon in 1961. A description of the type can be found on the page for sister BCK vehicle 21254, which resides on the SVRSevern Valley Railway.
After mainline service, 21249 had a spell in the departmental fleet before preservation in 1981 as part of the SLOASteam Locomotive Operators Association, formed in 1975 to bring together and assist operators wishing to run steam on the main line set. It subsequently had spells with Pullman Rail, the Lavender Line, Telford Steam RailwayTelford Horsehay Steam Trust Limited, a Charitable heritage railway located at Horsehay, Telford with proposals for running heritage trains into the Ironbridge Gorge and onto the former GWR Severn Valley branch. and GCRGreat Central Railway (Nottingham).
It was rebuilt in 2008, and is now owned by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust. It is used as one of their two mainline support coaches for LNERLondon & North Eastern Railway-design A1 class 60163 Tornado. It accompanied Tornado on visits to the SVRSevern Valley Railway in October 2015, September and November 2016, March 2018 and November 2019.
