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Corridor Composite (CK) 24617 was built at Derby in June 1950, as lot number 1500 to diagram 2159. 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 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.
24617 arrived on the SVR from Didcot on 28 August 1968with 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.
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