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}}[[File:6045_Rob_Massey.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Partially restored first class compartment ]]GWR 6045 is a 57' Corridor Composite (CK) carriage, having four first class compartments to seat 24 passengers and three third class compartments also to seat 24 passengers. It was built in 1928 to Lot 1392, Diagram E132, an early Collett design having flush sides and bow ends. It also has toilets at each end and external doors to each compartment on the non-corridor side. 6045 is a typical GWR vehicle from the 1920s; the first class compartments are trimmed in walnut and the third class in mahogany.<ref name=bloct21>[https://www.svrlive.com/bloct21 Branch Lines, October 2021]</ref> It is the only survivor of 51 built.
6045 was based in Devon and Cornwall for most of its mainline service.<ref name="SVRNews216">SVR News 216, Winter 2021, pp. 41-44</ref> The type were used initially on expresses and later on semi-fast cross-country services, including the Birmingham to Cardiff trains, which passed through Kidderminster<ref name=bloct21/>.
==6045 in departmental service==
It was converted to a BTU Staff & Dormitory Coach in 1962 and saw Departmental use as No DW 150293.<ref>[http://www.rcts.org.uk/application/files/9815/5646/6903/Preserved_Coaching_Stock_of_British_Railways_-_Part_Two_-_Jul_2013.pdf Railway Correspondence and Travel Society] (Retrieved 5 July 2019)</ref> It was condemned in 1971<ref name="SVRNews216"/>.
==6045 in preservation==
It arrived on the SVR on 6 January 1973 by rail from Bristol, having been bought the previous year by Robert Smallman for £200, plus £24 transport.<ref name=bloct21/><ref name="SVRNews216"/> The missing third class compartment structure came from [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR|GWR Collett bow-ended Corridor Third 4886]].<ref name="SVRNews216"/> Since then it had been stored in various locations on the SVR, but moved to [[Bewdley Down Yard]] in 2014 for restoration to begin. Work began in earnest in 2015; progress on the restoration was shown on the Great Western (SVR) Association website. In October 2018 the coach moved to [[Carriage Repair Works|Carriage Repair Works at Kidderminster]] and was completed in April 2020, the restoration costing around £150,000.<ref name=bloct21/> It is turned out in the livery it carried in 1930.<ref name=bloct21/>
It is now owned was purchased in 1976 by the [[Great Western (SVR) Assoc. | Great Western (SVR) Association]]. <ref name="SVRNews216"/>
On 17 October 2021 a special train ran with [[1501]] and [[Carriages|the Great Western set]] to officially launch 6045, with special guest passengers involved in its return to traffic.<ref name=bloct21/> Originally planned for May 2020, it was delayed by the [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic]]<ref>GW(SVR)A Newsletter, Winter 2020 edition</ref><ref>[http://www.gw-svr-a.org.uk/news.html GW(SVR)A News page, April 2020]</ref>.
