19850223_ZD_AdrianNicols

Bogie BREL Seat Trim Material Stores Van.
Location : Three Bridge CE PAD Yard., Date : 25/05/1987., Vehicle : Bogie Seat Trim Materials Stores Van. (ex Syphon G)., Number : CDB 975841., TOPS Code : QRV., , In 1979 BR transferred 16 former GWR Syphon G or GWR designed BR built Syphon G ventilated milk vans into the departmental fleet as seat trim material stores vans. The fleet operating from BREL Derby Litchurch Lane and Swindon Works and covered vehicles numbered; CDB 975832 to CDB 975843 & CDB 975854 to CDB 975857., The vehicle depicted here was formerly numbered W2943 W and was built in 1945 by GWR Swindon Works to diagram O33 from coaching stock lot no. 1664. With the closure of Swindon Works many of the vans were displaced to other work or simply withdrawn for disposal. CDB 975841 seen here must have passed to the Southern Region internal user fleet as it spent many years sat at Three Bridges Yard but to my knowledge it never received an 08xxxx number. Thankfully it is still with us and is now to be found at the Vale of Berkeley Railway awaiting restoration.

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