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[[File: LNER_24506_20160829.jpg |thumb|300px|right| LNER Brake Third 24506, formerly Pigeon Van 70759 plus much replacement material from 70442]]
[[File:70759_Bewdley_Jun_4th_2005_sm.jpg|thumb|300px|right|BGP 70759's arrival at Bewdley from the South Devon Railway June 2005]]
24506 was built in 1943 as Gangwayed Full Brake/Pigeon Van 70759 (Type BGP). Being equipped with fold down shelves it was a very versatile carriage able to carry a wide variety of traffic including parcels, passenger luggage (occasionally accompanied by its owners!) and racing pigeons. There was a guard's area which in about 1945 was enclosed as a compartment in response to complaints that the guards were feeling the cold. After withdrawal by BR in 1972, it was purchased from York and used as a store by publishers David & Charles at their Newton Abbot premises. It later In April 1991 it moved to the South Devon Railway where it was again used as a store.
As 70759, it was purchased by [[The LNER (SVR) Coach Fund]] in 2005, arriving at Kidderminster SVR in March of that year. Initially it was used at Bewdley as a combined storeroom for parts waiting to be fitted to 2701 and the LNER/Bewdley Station Funds joint shop. In 2010 it was gifted to the SVR Rolling Stock Trust (now the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd]]) and restoration began to return the vehicle to service as a second LNER brake van (BTK) for the teak set.
