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|image = GWR_1146_20150528GWR_1146_20210423.jpg
|caption = GWR Full Third 1146
|construc = GWR Swindon
==Preservation==
Early in 1969, BR decided to dispose of the Swindon Test Train. [[Great Western (SVR) Association|GW(SVR )A]] member David Rouse negotiated the purchase of the complete train for preservation, with four of the coaches being acquired by the GWS at Didcot.<ref>SVR News 157</ref> Four TKs and [[GWR 7284 Composite|Corridor Composite 7284]] were bought for the SVR by various groups and individuals including the [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]] who secured 1146. All five SVR coaches arrived on 19 December 1969.<ref>SVR Stock Book Third Edition, August 1971</ref>
By autumn 1974 7284, 1086 and 1087 had been fully restored and were in passenger service, while 1116 had received a quick repaint. 1146 had spent a period stored until missing fittings became available<ref>SVR Stock Book Fifth Edition, September 1974</ref> but work was nearing completion, one of the major jobs being the replacement of four interior doors.<ref>SVR News 33</ref>
1146 received another repaint at Bewdley in late 2000, also moving to Kidderminster Carriage Works for a lift and bogie overhaul, plus replacement vacuum brake cylinders. However it then spent most of the winter and following spring waiting to return to the jacks after being ousted by the urgent need to fit air braking to 60009 Union of South Africa's support coach.<ref>SVR News 137</ref> A further repaint at Bewdley followed between July and September 2002 as part of a programme to improve the appearance of the whole [[Carriages#Set GW2|GW2 set]] which had become a source of much negative comment at the time.<ref>SVR News 142</ref>
In spring 2014 1146 was the first of the GWR coaches to go to Bewdley for overhaul as part a programme to repair a number of them in time for the forthcoming 2015 50th anniversary celebrations.<ref>SVR News 186</ref> The overhaul, which included repainting in the Bewdley carriage paint shop in GWR 1934-42 livery featuring the 'shirt-button' roundel, was completed in time for a return to service in spring of 2015. <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">GWR_1146_20150528.jpg|Newly outshopped in 2015</gallery>
During the early hours of Boxing Day morning 2017, 1146 was one of two coaches vandalised at Kidderminster (the other being [[GNR_2701_Composite_Corridor | GNR Corridor Composite No. 2701)]]. An A flash appeal by the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd| SVR Charitable Trust]] raised more than £10£13,000 to help pay for the repairs, which involved stripping and repainting both coaches over a 6-week period.<ref>[https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/bridgnorth/2017/12/26/historic-severn-valley-railway-carriages-vandalised-by-yobs/ Shropshire Star]</ref><ref>SVR News 201</ref><ref>SVR Charitable Trust accounts to 30 June 2018, p.5</ref> In September 2023 a paintwork/varnish refresh was completed at [[Bridgnorth Loco Works|Bridgnorth Loco Works paintshop]], one of several carriages that received attention there.
==See also==
