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==DM45017==
This carriage began life as a Corridor Third, built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Newton Heath in 1910 and numbered 247. In 1917 it was converted into a US continental ambulance staff car, becoming Staff Car B No 5902 in US Continental Ambulance Train 59. After the War it was rebuilt by the LMS in 1923 as a staff medical examination car for which it was numbered 10825. Under BR it was given the Departmental number DM45017. In service it was mainly based at Holyhead and its role was to carry the company medical officer around the various sheds and depots in the LMS and London Midland Region.
DM45017 had been purchased by autumn 1972 and was repainted into LMS livery at Holyhead while awaiting delivery to the SVR.<ref name=SVR25>SVR News 25</ref> This became something of a prolonged saga,<ref name=SVR29>SVR News 29, HRSG Notes</ref> as it did not arrive at the SVR until 9 July 1974, the stock book noting that it was intended to be used as a private party saloon coach.<ref name=SB5>SVR Stock Book Fifth Edition, September 1974</ref> Its stay was short-lived as it had left by spring 1975, moving from Highley to the Dinting Railway Centre<ref>SVR News 35</ref> in the care of The Bahamas Locomotive Society<ref>[http://lmsca.org.uk/blog/category/carriage-preservation/ LMS Carriage Association]</ref>.
