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== Barry Railway Carriage 163 in preservation ==
Following withdrawal, the coach body and that of sister coach 164 were used as a holiday home in the Clent Hills until 1992. 163 was then rescued for restoration, arriving at [[Hampton Loade]] on 25 April 1992<ref>SVR News 118</ref> along with parts from 164 which had already been broken up. The carriage was sited in the goods yard on an isolated section of track. A partial tent was later erected.
The carriage body is now mounted on the 4-wheeled underframe of an ex-SR Guards and Luggage van (type BY), built at Eastleigh in 1937 and originally numbered C 436, later numbered ADB975140 for departmental use by BR. This was initially preserved in 1994 at the Gwili Railway, but the body was later scrapped and the underframe acquired and moved to Hampton Loade on 24 February 2001 as a donor for 163. After the underframe was shortened, the body of 163 was mounted on it on 16 August 2003 with the aid of the Bridgnorth steam crane.
The [[Barry Railway Carriage Trust]] was formed in 2009 to complete the restoration. In addition to being mounted on the donor underframe, the carriage's internal partitions have been reinstated and much of the bodywork repaired. The [[Barry Railway Carriage Trust]] 's aim was formed in 2009 to complete the restoration, which continues at Hampton Loade station. The Trust had stated that their aim to get 163 into traffic in time for its 125th birthday in 2020, but this has not occurredwas missed.<ref>[http://www.barryrailwaycarriagetrust.org.uk/our_project.html BRCT website 'our project' page](Retrieved 21 October 2022)</ref>
The carriage is one of the items to look out for in the childrens ‘I-spy’ supplement to the SVR’s [[From The Window]] booklet.
In April 2022 the owning Trust announced that they and the Railway had agreed that 163 will leave the SVR.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/BarryRailwayCarriageTrust/photos/a.510853185709465/4949080231886716 Barry Railway Carriage Trust on Facebook, 30 April 2022]</ref> It is expected to In October the Trust announced it will move to the Gwili Railway: transport from Hampton Loade by rail and then road to Wales and the Trust are waiting for a date from the SVR for when this will happen.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=479165234239537&set=a.461023969386997 Barry Railway Carriage Trust on Facebook, 20 October 2022</ref>
==See also==
