999508

Your comments

• Marcus Dawson

  30 July 2002, 23:14:24

  Am I missing something but isn't the previous photo on the page of 999508 a completly different coach? Me thinks this is not the right number for THIS vehicle.

  MD www.rail-net.co.uk

• Ben

  2 August 2002, 19:54:16

  As far as I am aware it is the same coach - converted from an inspection saloon to a test train coach.

• POG

  5 August 2002, 21:27:40

  It is the same vehicle, given away by the 2 front windows rather than the usual 3 on the 9995xx vehicles, also don't forget these are asymetrical vehicles, this is the other side to the Serco pic.

• Simon Bendall

  6 August 2002, 22:51:27

  DB999508 started life as in the above photo. It was modified by BR in the mid 1980s to a track inspection coach - this is when it got the recessed side windows. Serco further modified it in 2001 when a generator set was installed. The two front windows do not automatically mean this is DB999508 as DB999506 and DB999509 are the same design.

• DAVE

  2 February 2003, 16:16:30

  I have a picture of this vehicle taken on 21/3/84 at Exeter St.Davids, it is definitely DB999508. I'll send the picture in to confirm it.

• Harold Nicolson

  28 April 2009, 09:41:55

  http://philtpics.fotopic.net/p39561134.html

• Mike Cole

  31 May 2010, 07:33:58

  Hi all,

  does anybody have a drawing/sketch of the internal layout for this vehicle - as built, as I am giving serious thoughtto modelling it in O Gauge.

  regards

  Mike