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'''BR Mk 3a coaching stock ''' entered service between 1975 and 1988. It featured a monocoque construction with an all-welded mild steel stressed skin, and was air-braked. These features make it unsuitable for operational use on a heritage railway such as the SVR. However the SVR has acquired a number of Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper carriages which are used as temporary accommodation. They are of two varieties, the Sleeper Either class (SLE) and the Sleeper Either class with Pantry (SLEP). ==Current Mk 3a coaching stock=={{As of|2020}} there are three Mk 3 sleepers still present on the SVR:

|10569 || SLEP || 1982 || Derby || May 2007|| [[Bewdley]] || [http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3512 10569 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]

|10606 10696 || SLEP SLE || 1982 1983 || Derby || April 2007|| [[Kidderminster]] Bewdley || [http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3520 10606 3521 10696 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]

|10696 || SLE || 1983 || Derby || April 2007|| Bewdley || [http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3521 10696 on vintagecarriagestrust.org]|-|10713 || SLE || 1983 || Derby || April 2007 || Kidderminster [[Diesel Depot]] || [http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=5495 10713 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]

<gallery>File: BR_10569_20150320.jpg|10569File: BR_10696_20150320.jpg|10696File: BR_10713_20150402.jpg|10713</gallery> ==Former Mk 3a coaching stock== Two other Mk 3a Convertible Sleepers were previously resident but have since been scrapped: *10677: This vehicle reportedly arrived on the SVR circa 2010.<ref>[http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=5257 Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey 10677]</ref> It was stripped for spares at Kidderminster, the body leaving by low loader in April 2014 for cutting up at Lye.<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1790&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 SVR forum]</ref><ref Name=DW>Confirmed by David Williams, 15 January 2020</ref>*10606: SLEP built in 1982 at Derby.<ref>[http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3520 10606 on Railway Heritage Register On-Line]</ref> Photographed at Kidderminster in 2015 (see below), it has since been stripped for spares and by December 2017 had been sent to Kingsbury for cutting up.<ref Name=DW/><ref>[http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3520 Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey 10606]</ref> <gallery>File: BR_10606_20150503.jpg|10606</gallery> ==Belmond Northern BelleMk 3a coaching stock==In Between 2017 and 2018 the SVR entered into an agreement to stable [[Northern Belle|this train]]. It includes included two sleeper vehicles:

==Scrapped Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper NoBy May 2018 all [[Northern Belle]] vehicles had left the SVR. 10677==

This vehicle reportedly arrived on the SVR circa 2010==Locomotive Services Limited ('LSL') Mk 3 coaching stock==On 25 November 2019 locomotive 47593 delivered eight Mark 3 sleepers for temporary storage outside [[Kidderminster Carriage Shed]] until March 2020.<ref>[httphttps://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustsvrlive.orgcom/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=5257 Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey 10677epdec19 Express Points, December 2019]</ref>. It was stripped for spares at KidderminsterThe sleepers had been displaced from Caledonian Sleeper services by new Mark 5 sleeper stock, the body leaving and bought by low loader in April 2014LSL for charter use.<ref>[httphttps://forumwww.svracaf.org.uknet/en/productos-servicios/proyectos/viewtopicproyecto-detalle.php?tp=1790&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 SVR forum277 CAF](Retrieved 16 January 2020)</ref> ==Gallery==<gallery>File: BR_10569_20150320.jpgDuring this period the [[Kidderminster Loop Line]] was closed for repairs to [[Falling Sands Viaduct]] and some [[Carriages#The_carriage_sets|10569File: BR_10606_20150503carriage sets]] were stabled at the north end of the line, allowing space for the vehicles to be stored.jpg|10606File: BR_10696_20150320.jpg|10696File: BR_10713_20150402.jpg|10713</gallery>

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