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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Tyseley Shed: gwrt3032
Fifty-six foot, eleven inch long third class corridor
toplight coach No 3892 to diagram C32, seen in the final Great Western Railway
livery at Tyseley Carriage Sidings in 1950. The coach has nine foot pressed
steel bogies, pressed steel sides and toplights over the compartment fixed
windows. This is the compartment side, there being eight compartments (six foot
between partitions) and a lavatory at each end of the coach. The wooden
platform is to facilitate cleaning the coach exterior.
This particular coach was purpose-built as an Open Ward
Coach for a Continental Ambulance Train during the First World War. The Great
Western Railway supplied coaches for; four Home Ambulance Trains and ten
Continental Ambulance Trains (including four Trains for the US Army). The
majority of the coaches in the Ambulance Trains that were supplied to the War
Office, consisted of conversions from existing passenger coach stock, but some
were purpose-built. After the war the Great Western Railway repurchased most of
the coaches that they had supplied, including twenty two of these purpose-built
Open Ward coaches which they then proceeded to convert into third class Diagram
C32 corridor coaches under lot 1269 in August 1920. The table below gives
details of all seventy-five diagram C32 coaches constructed, including those
converted from Open Ward Coaches (OWC) after the war:
Lot No |
Diagram |
Date Completed |
Quantity |
Running Numbers |
1234 |
C32 |
21st February 1914 |
10 |
2569 to 2580 |
1246 |
C32 |
29th May 1915 |
35 |
3913 to 3947 (see note below) |
Note Coaches No 3929 and 3939 of
this lot were turned out as Open Ward Coaches (OWC) for Ambulance Trains and
after the war reconverted to Diagram C32 coaches No 3631 and 2466. |
1269 |
OWC |
15th August 1920 |
22 |
3879 to 3900 |
1286 |
OWC ex C32 |
15th May 1921 |
1 |
3631 (see note above) |
1312 |
OWC ex C28 |
October 1922 |
8 |
2463, 2464, 2467 to 2471 and 2476 |
1312 |
OWC ex C32 |
October 1922 |
1 |
2466 (see note above) |
See table in 'gwrt3031' for
details of all the third class coaches modified from repurchased Ambulance
coaches and see 'misc_equip245' for
more details of the Ambulance Coaches and Trains.
Robert Ferris
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