LMSR/BR Period III Sleeping Cars
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Grouping Design Passenger Carrying Carriages -1970's Survivors Disposals
The 1972 edition of 'The Coaching Stock of British Railways' listed twenty-nine of the post-war LMSR Period III Sleeping Cars in stock. A total of fifty, twenty-five of each class had been built. The remaining First Class Cars were taken out of use soon after whilst a number of the Second Class Cars continued to be used for several more years. All fifty cars built are listed.
SLEEPER FIRST
| Built: 1951 | Lot number: 1570 | Diagram: 2166 | Total: 5 |
Six-wheel bogies
| Number | Withdrawn | Disposal |
| 378 | 1971 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Construction Department Dormitory Coach DB975181. Preserved by North Yorkshire Moors Railway, arrived 12/79. Moved to Churnet Valley Railway 2/01, then to Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway 9/06. |
| 379 | 1971 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Construction Department Dormitory Coach DB975182. Preserved at East Anglian Railway Museum 12/79. Moved to Bere Ferrers Station Museum 09/00. |
| 380 | 1971 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Construction Department Dormitory Coach DB975183. Preserved at Great Central Railway 12/82. Moved to the Old Railway Station, Hawsker, near Whitby, North Yorkshire, then to the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway 6/06. |
| 381 | 1971 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Construction Department Dormitory Coach DB975184. Preserved at Mid Hants Railway 12/83. Disposed of to Knights Rail Services, Eastleigh Works for asbestos removal and scrapping 3/10, cut 4/10. |
| 382 | 1971 | J. MacWiliam, Shettleston, Glasgow p6/72. |
| Built: 1951-1952 | Lot number: 1584 | Diagram: 2166 | Total: 20 |
Six wheel bogies
| Number | Withdrawn | Disposal |
| 383 | 1971 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975185. A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire arrived 7/7/75, cut 8/75. |
| 384 | 1971 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975187. G. Cohen, Morriston, Swansea, cut 7/74. |
| 385 | 1971 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975186. A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire arrive 7/7/75, cut 8/75. |
| 386 | 1971 | Despatched from Wolverton Works to Armytage & Sons, Sheepbridge, Chesterfield, Derbyshire 9/8/72, arrived 17/8/72. |
| 387 | 1973 | Dispatched from Old Oak Common to T. W. Ward, Beighton, Sheffield, South Yorkshire 22/02/73. |
| 388 | 1972 | Dispatched from Old Oak Common to Morriston, Swansea 12/72 Did it then go into the Bird Group or G. Cohen yard for scrapping? |
| 389 | 1971 | Intended to be converted to Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975189 but conversion cancelled. Dispatched from Wolverton Works to G. Cohen, Cransley, Kettering, Northamptonshire 30/10/73 arriving 2/11/73, cut 1974. |
| 390 | 1973 | Dispatched from Old Oak Common to T. W. Ward, Beighton, Sheffield, South Yorkshire 22/2/73. |
| 391 | 1971 | Intended to be converted to Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975190 but conversion cancelled. Despatched from Wolverton Works to G. Cohen, Cransley, Kettering, Northamptonshire 30/10/73, arrived 2/11/73, cut 1974. |
| 392 | 1971 | Despatched from Wolverton Works to Armytage & Sons, Sheepbridge, Chesterfield, Derbyshire 9/8/72, arrived 17/8/72. |
| 393 | 1971 | Despatched from Wolverton Works to Armytage & Sons, Sheepbridge, Chesterfield, Derbyshire 24/8/72, arrived 27/9/72. |
| 394 | 1972 | Preserved at the Strathspey Railway. Moved to Ecclesbourne Valley Railway 2014. |
| 395 | 1971 | Preserved at Steamtown Railway Centre / West Coast Railway Company, Carnforth, Lancashire. |
| 396 | 1971 | Despatched from Wolverton Works to Armytage & Sons, Sheepbridge, Chesterfield, Derbyshire 9/8/72, arrived 17/8/72. |
| 397 | 1966 | Broken up at / Disposed of from Bletchley p2/67. |
| 398 | 1971 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975188. Preserved at Bluebell Railway, arrived 20/8/74. |
| 399 | 1971 | Despatched by road 7/74 from Wolverton Works to W. Goodman, New Bradwell, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. |
| 400 | 1972 | Disposed of from Willesden to G. Cohen, Cransley, near Kettering, Northamptonshire 16/3/73, arrived 21/3/73. |
| 401 | 1972 | Disposed of from Willesden to G. Cohen, Cransley, near Kettering, Northamptonshire 16/3/73, arrived 21/3/73. |
| 402 | 1972 | Disposed of from Willesden to G. Cohen, Cransley, near Kettering, Northamptonshire 16/3/73, arrived 21/3/73. |
SLEEPER THIRD
| Lot number: 1574 | Diagram: 2169 | Total: 10 |
| Number | Withdrawn | Disposal |
| 600 | 1965 | xxxx |
| 601 | 1976/77 | Disposed of from Warrington to A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire 11/80. |
| 602 | 1976/77 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach ADB975578 based at Perth. A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, cut 11/81. |
| 603 | 1974/75 | Preserved at Steamtown Railway Centre, Carnforth, Lancashire. Moved to the Bluebell Railway, arriving 22/5/82. |
| 604 | 1976/77 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach ADB975579 based at Perth. A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, cut 12/82. |
| 605 | 1967 | Disposed of at /from Wolverton Works 6/68 |
| 606 | 1976/77 | A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire 11/81 |
| 607 | 1976/77 | Disposed of from Bletchley to Berry, Leicester, Leicestershire 5/80 |
| 608 | 1976/77 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975585 based at Irvine. A. King, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, cut 3/82. |
| 609 | 1976/77 | Disposed of from Ely to A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire 2/80. |
| Built: 1952 | Lot number: 1628 | Diagram: 2169 | Total: 15 |
| Number | Withdrawn | Disposal |
| 610 | 1967 | Disposed of at /from Wolverton Works 8/68 |
| 611 | 1976/77 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975580 based at Perth. A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, cut 11/81. |
| 612 | 1974/75 | Preserved at Midland Railway Centre, arrived 18/4/77, broken up c2010. |
| 613 | 1976/77 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975581. Mayer Newman, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, cut 4/87. |
| 614 | 1976/77 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as S&T Dormitory Coach ADB975571 based at Bedford. Berry, Leicester, Leicestershire, cut 1/86. |
| 615 | 1974/75 | Preserved at West Somerset Railway. Disposed of to MC Metal Processing, Glasgow, cut 1992. |
| 616 | 1976/77 | Disposed of from Edge Hill, Liverpool c30/4/82 to A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, cut 6/82. |
| 617 | 1976/77 | Despatched to Bird Group, Long Marston, Worcestershire but not accepted. Preserved at Dean Forest Railway. Moved to Swindon & Cricklade Railway. |
| 618 | 1976/77 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975582 based at Perth. A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, cut 11/81. |
| 619 | 1976/77 | Despatched to Bird Group, Long Marston, Worcestershire but not accepted. Despatched from Worcester to A. King & Sons, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire 10/80 |
| 620 | 1976/77 | Transferred to Departmental Stock as Civil Engineers Department Dormitory Coach DB975583. Mayer Newman, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, cut 4/87. |
| 621 | 1974/75 | Preserved at Strathspey Railway. Moved to Ecclesbourne Valley Railway 2014. |
| 622 | 1974/75 | Preserved at Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway, broken up c2006. |
| 623 | 1974/75 | Preserved at Bluebell Railway, arrived 15/6/77. |
| 624 | 1976/77 | Preserved at Didcot Railway Centre. Moved to Victoria Coal Yard, Norwich, Norfolk 16/9/77, then to North Norfolk Railway 12/78, believed to have been broken up on site at Weybourne. |
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