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Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper

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==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)</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. The storage period has since been extended and other rolling stock delivered. {{As of|2022|12}} there were 10 vehicles at Kidderminster or Bewdley, ex-Caledonian Sleepers Nos 10504 and 10513 (Mark 3A SLEP), 10648, 10650, 10675 and 10683 (Mark 3A SLE) and ex-First Great Western carriages Nos 40106, 42319, 42583 and 46012. In November 2022, six of the carriages were used as a set for load testing visiting air-braked locomotive LNER B1 Class No. 61306 ''Mayflower''.  
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LSL_Mark_3_Sleepers_20210423.jpg| Sleepers stored alongside Kidderminster Carriage Shed, April 2021
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Occasionally several of these carriages have been marshalled in non-public sets with [[Carriages visiting the SVR| a support coach]] to enable visiting LSL air-braked locomotives to undergo running-in and load testing, including the below (possibly incomplete list):
 
*February 2022 with [[BR Standard Class 7 70000 Britannia | 70000 Britannia]]
*March 2022 with LNER Gresley A4 Pacific 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley [as LNER 4498]
*November 2022 with LNER Thompson B1 class 4-6-0 61306 Mayflower
*March 2024 with LNER Peppercorn Class A2 Pacific 60532 Blue Peter
==See also==
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