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__NOTOC__'''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 (SLEP) 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:

! Number !! Version !! Built !! Build location !! To SVR by !! Current or usual location !! Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey

|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 || 1982 SLE || 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 || 1983 || Derby || April 200710713 || 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]

==SourcesFormer 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 Survey10677]</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> ==Northern Belle Mk 3a coaching stock==Between 2017 and 2018 the SVR entered into an agreement to stable [[Northern Belle|this train]]. It included two sleeper vehicles: {| class="wikitable sortable"!Number !! Name!! Type !! Built !! Build location !! Notes !! RHR Carriage Survey|-|10729|| ''Crewe''|| BR Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper||1980||Derby|| Staff sleeper||[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3591 10729]|-|10734|| ''Balmoral''||BR Mk 3a Royal Train Staff Sleeper||1984|| || Staff sleeper (formerly No 2914)||[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=4205 10734]|-|} By May 2018 all [[Northern Belle]] vehicles had left the SVR. ==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>[https://www.svrlive.com/epdec19 Express Points, December 2019]</ref> The sleepers had been displaced from Caledonian Sleeper services by new Mark 5 sleeper stock, and bought by LSL for charter use.<ref>[https://www.caf.net/en/productos-servicios/proyectos/proyecto-detalle.php?p=277 CAF] (Retrieved 16 January 2020)<br/ref>During this period the [[Kidderminster Loop Line]] was closed for repairs to [[Falling Sands Viaduct]] and some [[Carriages#The_carriage_sets| carriage sets]] were stabled at the north end of the line, allowing space for the vehicles to be stored.

*[[Carriagesformerly resident on the SVR]]*[[Carriages#BR Designed Coaches | List of carriages]]*[[Northern Belle]] ==References==<references /> {{CarriageNavbox}}[[Category:Rolling stock in Bewdley Down Yard]][[Category: Carriage Type SLE / SLEP]][[Category: Rolling stock owned by SVR(H)]][[Category: Carriages used for volunteer staff accommodation]]