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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|2023}} there are two 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 10696 || 1982 SLE || 1983 || Derby || May April 2007|| [[Bewdley Down Yard]]. Out of use January 2023 || [http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3512 10569 3521 10696 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]

|10606 10713 || 1982 SLE || 1983 || Derby || April 2007 || Kidderminster [[Diesel Depot]] || [http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3520 10606 5495 10713 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]

|} Both the Mk 3a carriages listed are owned by [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC | SVR(H)]]. <gallery>File: BR_10696_20150320.jpg|10696 File: 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 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> Ten Mk. 3a Sleepers were exported to Denmark in 1987 and the saw regular use between Kobenhavn H., Aarhus and Aalborg C, and later on seasonal snow and ski trips from Copenhagen to Innsbrucke, before being declared surplus by Danish Railways following the opening of the Great Belt crossing. Danish Railways 50 86 7572 077-7 and the others were purchased by Angel Trains Contracts and returned via the Channel Tunnel, and on 30 November 1998 they were hauled by 47286 from Dollands Moor to MOD Kineton for storage.<ref>[https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mark-3-sleeping-cars-used-in-denmark.93214/ Railforums.co.uk]</ref> 10677 arrived at the SVR around May 2010 for spares recovery. 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><ref>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/573173142789869/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=4761997193907422 Bendall, Simon via MK1. MK2. MK3. MK4. MK5. COACHES on Facebook]</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> *10569: SLEP built in 1982 at Derby.<ref>[http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3512 10569 on Railway Heritage Register On-Line]</ref> 10569 was first used in preservation on the VSOE set at Stewarts Lane. By 2005 it had transferred to the Northern Belle fleet, based at Crewe Carriage Shed. It arrived on the SVR in May 2007 and was based in [[Bewdley Down Yard]], carrying chocolate and cream livery and bearing the name 'Leviathan'. It left the SVR by road from Kidderminster on 13 October 2022, reportedly for scrap. <gallery>File: BR_10569_20150320.jpg|10569</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''| 1983 |BR Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper| Derby |1980|| April 2007Derby|| Bewdley Staff sleeper|| [http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3521 10696 on vintagecarriagestrust.org3591 10729]

|10713 10734|| 1983 ''Balmoral''|| Derby BR Mk 3a Royal Train Staff Sleeper|| April 2007 1984|| Kidderminster [[Diesel Depot]] || Staff sleeper (formerly No 2914)|| [http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=5495 10713 on vintagecarriagestrust.org4205 10734]

10569 was first used in preservation on the VSOE set at Stewarts Lane. By 2005 it had transferred to the May 2018 all [[Northern Belle fleet, based at Crewe Carriage Shed. It is in chocolate and cream livery and bears ]] vehicles had left the name “Leviathan”SVR.

All the ==Locomotive Services Limited ('LSL') Mk 3a carriages listed are owned 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 [[Severn Valley Railway 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 (HoldingsMark 3A SLEP) PLC | SVR, 10648, 10650, 10675 and 10683 (HMark 3A SLE)]]and ex-First Great Western carriages Nos 40106, 42319, 42583 and 46012.

<gallery mode=packed heights=Gallery200px style==<gallery"text-align:left">File: BR_10569_20150320.jpg|10569File: BR_10696_20150320.jpg|10696File: BR_10713_20150402LSL_Mark_3_Sleepers_20210423.jpg|10713Sleepers stored alongside Kidderminster Carriage Shed, April 2021

*[[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]]