GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Shed: gwrt2977

GWR 70 ft long Suburban Brake Third Coach No 1074 photographed in Tyseley Carriage Sidings on 12th March 1948

Great Western Railway seventy foot long Suburban Brake Third Coach No 1074 photographed in Tyseley Carriage Sidings on 12th March 1948. This coach belonged to Birmingham Division ‘A’ set No 7 and was one of eight steel panelled, non–corridor toplight coaches built under lot 1227 to diagram D55 in November 1913. The coach had eight third class compartments, a guard’s compartment and luggage area. The coach running numbers were 1070 to 1077 and were arranged into four, four coach Divisional Sets as follows:

Birmingham A Set	Brake Third Diagram D55	Composite Diagram E97	Composite Diagram E97	Brake Third Diagram D55
No 5	1070	6863	6864	1071
No 6	1072	6865	6866	1073
No 7	1074	6867	6868	1075
No 8	1076	6869	6870	1077

These four coach sets spent almost their entire service life allocated to the Birmingham Division being eventually condemned in December 1956. They have the distinction of being the only seventy foot long non-corridor coaches to run on an English Railway and were the first vehicles on the Great Western Railway to have fireproof floors.

Robert Ferris

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