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{{Infobox maroon carriage|image = LMS 24617 20150718.jpg|caption = LMS 24617 Corridor Composite|construc = BR Derby|status = In service|carno = 24617|othernos = W 24617 M|designed = Stanier|diagram = 2159|lot = 1500|cartype = [[File:Category:BR Carriage classification codes#LMS Ivatt "Codes|CBC" No.24617 (6901399159).jpg]], [[:Category: Carriage Type CK|CK]]|length = 60ft 0¾in|weight = 30T|seats = 24 first, 18 third |built = 1949|years1 = 1972|events1 = Arrived on SVR|years2 = |events2 = |years3 = |events3 = |years4 = |events4 = |thumbyears5 = |300pxevents5 = |rightyears6 = |events6 = }}Sir William Stanier was succeeded as CME of the LMS 24617 Corridor Composite]]by C E Fairburn in 1944 and H G Ivatt in 1945. Although neither produced any new carriage designs, they did implement some of Stanier’s style changes. Among those was the port-hole stock, echoing that used by the 1938 streamliners. Following nationalisation in January 1948, BR continued to build LMS style carriages into the early 1950s.

==Service==Corridor Composite (CK) 24617 was built at Derby in June 1950 , as lot number 1500 to diagram 2159.<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Jenkinson & Essery (1977)]] p. 110.</ref> The steel framing and all-welded construction gives a slightly more rounded profile than the earlier timber-framed stock. It has four First class and is owned three Third class compartments, with a lavatory at each end. It served on BR’s Western Region until 1968, when it was declared surplus to requirements by BR at Didcot only weeks after a full works overhaul. ==Preservation==24617 arrived on the SVR from Didcot on 28 August 1968 with several other vehicles. Former owning group the ‘LMS & BR Coach Fund’ donated all its vehicles to [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd | The SVR Charitable Trust]]in 2007. The Trust’s web site notes that 24617 has run in SVR service every season since 1968. It forms part of [[Carriages#Set_L|the LMS Maroon set (Set L)]], notwithstanding that it was not built until after nationalisation. 24617 was the carriage that Richard Hannay (Robert Powell) boarded at the start of the railway scenes in the 1978 film [[The Thirty Nine Steps]]. 24617 and the other carriages from the LMS set used in filming were given 'Midland Railway' decals as the film was set in 1914, although the number W24617M, a BR era number for an ex-LMS carriage allocated to the BR Western Region, was left unaltered. ==See also==[[Carriages| List of carriages]] ==References==<references/>SVR Stock Book 9th edition<br>Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey

*[http://www.gwr813.org/LMS24617.htm 24617 on wwwcs.gwr813rhrp.org]<br>[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.orguk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=715 24617 on www.vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]<br>*[http://svrtrust.org.uk/our-vehicles/lms/24617-2.html 24617 on svrtrust.org.uk]