Current number: (no longer numbered in departmental/IU series)
99628
Departmental number:
150323
Any other previous number(s):
2798
Notes:
Scrapped - Vic Berry, Leicester 5/86
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| Location | Date | Observer |
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| Salisbury | ** *** **** | Roger Harris |
| Salisbury | ** *** **** | Roger Butcher |
| Salisbury | ** *** **** | Roger Harris |
| Salisbury | ** *** **** | Steven Jordan |
| Salisbury | ** *** **** | Leslie Wild |
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DW 150323
20 March 2009 - Martin Allen
This van is a GWR "Siphon G", ex. W 2798, diagram O22. It was not in exhibition train service at the time, but coupled between two of Fisons weedkilling train vans, (ex. GWR Full Brake) spray coaches. No doubt because the vacuum brake rating only allows like-for-like GWR coaches to be coupled together.
Incredibly for such a late date, the livery was maroon sides with black ends. Apart from a couple of Mk.1 coaches dedicated to Royal Train working and possibly one Vale of Rhiedol (narrow gauge) coach, I can't think of any other BR coaches still in maroon livery in 1983.
DW 150323
21 March 2009 - Brian H Williams
It's one of the ones which were modified for Ambulance Train use during WW2, I believe, hence the replacement of the louvres by windows. Quite a few of these found their way into use on the WR newspaper trains in the 1960s- the fold-down shelves, originally fitted to allow other goods to be carried above the churns, were useful to hold stretchers, and then to serve as packing tables for the newspaper sorters.
20 December 2012 - Dan Adkins
Did this coach have 'Cater for Profit' on the side during the early seventies? If not, does anyone know which one(s) (non MK1) did?
3 February 2013 - Dan Adkins
Have added the photo here;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan700/8289908050/in/photostream/
If anyone does know the identities of the vehicles in the photo, please leave a comment! Thanks.