GWR 6562 Brake Composite

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GWRGreat Western Railway 6562 Brake CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard.
GWR E159 BCK 6562 at Highley.jpg
GWRGreat Western Railway 6562 Brake CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard.
Built By GWRGreat Western Railway Swindon
Status In service
Number 6562
Other numbers W6562W, 99238
History
Built 1938
Designed By CollettCharles Benjamin Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1922-1941
Diagram E159
Lot 1589
Type BCK
Seats 12 first, 32 third
1967 Preserved on SVRSevern Valley Railway
2017 Returned from overhaul that had commenced in 2015

Carriages

GWRGreat Western Railway 6562 is a Brake CompositeCarriage having more than one class of seating, ie First and Third or latterly First and Standard. (BCK). The term ‘composite’ refers to a carriage having more than one class of seating, in this case two first class and four third class compartments, together with two lavatories and a small guard’s compartment.

Service

6562 was built at Swindon in October 1938 as lot number 1589 to diagram E159. It later carried the number 99238, signifying hauled non-passenger carrying use.[1] Its working life ended at Ashton Gate, near Bristol.[2]

Preservation

6562 is the longest serving coach on the SVRSevern Valley Railway, being the only survivor of the first four which arrived at Bridgnorth on 25 March 1967 behind locomotive GWR 3205. It was acquired by The Great Western (SVR) Association from owner Mr D R Gwynne-Williams in autumn 1975.[3] The other three original coaches, numbers 3755, 3756 and 7285, were among eight owned by Mr Gwynne-Williams which left the SVR in 1976 and are now at Didcot.

Apart from repaints, 6562 has also seen almost continuous service since,[4] including being part of the GWR rake of carriages used on the main line in the 1970s. By 2015 it was at Bewdley awaiting an overhaul which began following the completion of 650. It returned to service in July 2017.

See also

List of carriages

References

  1. Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey
  2. SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book Fourth Edition
  3. SVRSevern Valley Railway News 37
  4. GW(SVR)AGreat Western (SVR) Association

Links

6562 on www.gw-svr-a.org.uk
6562 on www.vintagecarriagestrust.org