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|lot = 1383
|cartype = [[:Category:Carriage Type TK|TK]]
|length = 58ft 11½in (as built)
|weight = 30t 6cwt (as built)
|built = 1928
|seats = 64 third (as built)
===GW(SVR)A ownership===
Ownership passed to the [[Great Western (SVR) Assoc.]] in 2014 in a deal that saw the 2857 Society’s spares transferred to [[GWR 143 Tool & Packing Van]], allowing the [[The LNER Carriage Group|LNER Carriage Group]], who are based in [[Bewdley Down Yard]] to use 5043 to use it as a workshop and stores.<ref>2857 Society newsletter issue 82</ref> Shortly after taking ownership the GW(SVR)A announced its long term aspiration to convert this vehicle to a replica of a GWR Composite Diner to Diagram H33. The SVR, however, requires good quality wheelchair accessible accommodation (and a GWR design Buffet Car) for [[Carriages#The carriage sets|set GW2 GW]] and the H33 design is eminently adaptable for this purpose.
===SVR(H) ownership and conversion to GWR 9581===
The plan is to have saloon accommodation for disabled passengers and their companions at one end and an accessible buffet counter at the other. Entry will be via central double doors with an adjacent disabled WC. The external appearance will indeed be of a GWR H33 composite Kitchen Diner (see above). It will replicate the later condition of GWR catering vehicles, which were all rebuilt in a programme that lasted from 1937 to 1952. There were many variations, but they all gained flush sided steel panelling with sliding shutters replacing the original 'hopper' type opening toplights, a much more practical arrangement that vastly reduced the window's tendency to leak. <ref>[http://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=50670#50670 SVR Unofficial Form 30 May 2016]</ref> The General Arrangement drawing of the proposal, prepared by Peter Simpson of the GW(SVR)A, can be viewed as a pdf at File:http://www.svrwiki.com/version1241/images/f/f8/5043_elevation_drg_v4c-2a.pdf
Under the title 'PROJECT 9581 - ACCESS FOR ALL' it was the beneficiary of the traditional SVR Raffle in 2019, raising "more than £10,000".<ref>SVR News 205</ref><ref>[https://www.facebook.com/svrofficial/photos/a.216795638398146/2373313162746372/?type=3&theater SVR Facebook, 7 May 2019]</ref>
===Conversion work===
==Links==
*[http://www.lnersvrcoachfund.org.uk/gwr5043.html 'GWR 5043 Wheelchair and Buffet Project' on LNER Carriage Group website] page added 6 November 2017<br>*[https://www.svrlive.com/collett-5043 SVRLive news page] includes social media updates of conversion work<br>*[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=202 5043 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]<br>*[http://www.2857.org.uk/2857_coach_5043.html 5043 on 2857.org.uk] (archived page)<br>*[http://www.gw-svr-a.org.uk/5043.html 5043 on gw-svr-a.org.uk] (archived page)
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