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}}[[File:5043_280317.jpg|thumb|300px|right|5043 9581 temporarily leaves its usual space on 28 March 2017 to allow 4150's boiler lift]][[File:RD 30th March TMD.jpg|thumb|300px|right|9581 at Kidderminster for turning on 30 March 2021]]GWR 9581 is a Wheelchair accessible Buffet Car, created by rebuilding the bodyshell of GWR Collett Bow-Ended Coach No 5043, a standard 57ft full third coach originally built in June 1928 to diagram C54, lot 1383. The internal layout as built seated 64 passengers in eight compartments, with a side corridor and a toilet cubicle at each end.
As rebuilt the coach has been given a new SVR running number ‘9581’ which reflects its rôle as a catering vehicle. In GWR days these were all numbered in the 95XX or 96XX series. The revised bodyshell is based on a GWR Diagram H33 Collett Composite Diner which originally seated 12 first and 24 third. The number of one of these, the long-scrapped 9581, has been chosen for the rebuild of 5043.<ref>[http://www.lnersvrcoachfund.org.uk/news_letters/Newsletter_74-2018.pdf LNER Carriage Group Newsletter 74, December 2018]</ref> The original 9581 was in service between August 1925 and May 1959<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Longworth (2018)]] p.107</ref>.
