GWR 1399 Milk Brake
GWRGreat Western Railway ChurchwardGeorge Jackson Churchward, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1902-1922 Milk Brake (BY) No 1399 was built during the First World War as Pharmacy Car 39035, and was fitted with its present body in 1921 for use as a milk train brake van for carrying milk churns. It was later used for general parcels traffic before being transferred into departmental use at Worcester in 1958, from where it was brought to the SVRSevern Valley Railway in 1967.
As of March 2015 it is sited in Bewdley Cattle Dock where it is in use as a sales coach by the Great Western (SVR) Assoc..
Sources
Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey
Severn Valley Railway Stock Book Eighth Edition
Links
1399 on vintagecarriagestrust.org
1399 on gw-svr-a.org.uk
