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|othernos = E26880M, DM 395979

}}Sir William Stanier was succeeded as CME of the LMS 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. Unlike the [[LMS 24617 Corridor Composite | Corridor Composite]] version, the Brake Third Corridor continued the use of timber framing with steel top, bottom and corner members.

==Service==LMS Brake Third Corridor (BTK) 26880 was built in 1950 by BR at Derby<ref>SVR Stock Book states Wolverton</ref> to diagram number 2161 lot number 1501. <ref>Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey</ref> Unlike It is known to have carried the [[LMS 24617 Corridor Composite | Corridor Composite]] versionnumber E26880M, the Brake Third Corridor continued the use mixed prefix and suffix denoting a coach of timber framing with steel topLMS design allocated to BR’s Eastern region.<ref name=SVR93>SVR News 93</ref> After passenger service, bottom and corner members26880 saw departmental use as DM 395979.

After passenger service, ==Preservation==26880 saw departmental use as DM 395979. It arrived on the SVR in January 1973 from Chaddesdon. Following It spent a period of use as a store, ; it was while serving that function at Eardington in 1989 that the original number E26880M was discovered under the later DM number.<ref name=SVR93/> 26880 then underwent a 20 year restoration which was completed circa 2011-12.  It forms part of [[Carriages#Set_L|the LMS Maroon set (Set L)]], notwithstanding that it was not built until after nationalisation.

*[[Carriages| List of carriages]]

*[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=718 26880 on vintagecarriagestrust.org]<br>