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Great Western diesel railcars, numbers 1 to 38

Car No. Carriage Lot No. Stock Date Weight Seating Capacity Withdrawn Notes
1 1516 5/2/1934 24t 0cwt 69 8/1955
2 1522 9/7/1934 26t 4cwt 44 2/1954
3 1522 17/7/1934 26t 4cwt 44 3/1955
4 1522 26/9/1934 26t 4cwt 44 7/1958 Preserved at Steam Museum, Swindon
5 1522 22/7/1935 25t 6cwt 70 12/1957
6 1522 30/8/1935 25t 6cwt 70 4/1958
7 1522 8/7/1935 25t 6cwt 70 1/1959
8 1547 5/3/1936 29t 10cwt 70 1/1959
9 1546 3/2/1936 29t 10cwt 70 5/1946 Destroyed by fire at Heyford, 24th July 1945
10 1547 17/2/1936 29t 18cwt 63 4/1956 Destroyed by fire at Bridgnorth, 9th March 1956
11 1547 17/2/1936 29t 18cwt 63 11/1956
12 1547 11/2/1936 29t 18cwt 63 6/1957
13 1546 16/3/1936 29t 10cwt 70 8/1960
14 1546 23/3/1936 29t 10cwt 70 8/1960
15 1546 6/4/1936 29t 10cwt 70 1/1959
16 1546 17/4/1936 29t 10cwt 70 10/1957
17 1547 27/4/1936 28t 17cwt --- 1/1959 Express parcels car,
capacity 10 tons
18 1564 4/4/1937 33t 12cwt 49 5/1957
19 1635 11/7/1940 35t 13cwt 48 2/1960
20 1635 4/6/1940 35t 13cwt 48 10/1962 Preserved at Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden
21 1635 11/7/1940 35t 13cwt 48 8/1962
22 1635 18/9/1940 35t 13cwt 48 10/1962 Preserved at
Didcot Railway Centre
23 1635 18/9/1940 35t 13cwt 48 10/1962
24 1635 18/9/1940 35t 13cwt 48 10/1962
25 1635 18/9/1940 35t 13cwt 48 8/1962
26 1635 18/9/1940 35t 13cwt 48 10/1962
27 1635 6/11/1940 35t 13cwt 48 9/1960
28 1635 16/12/1940 35t 13cwt 48 9/1960
29 1635 6/1/1941 35t 13cwt 48 8/1962
30 1635 13/1/1941 35t 13cwt 48 8/1962
31 1635 3/2/1941 35t 13cwt 48 8/1962
32 1635 3/2/1941 35t 13cwt 48 10/1962
33 1635 3/3/1941 35t 13cwt 48 8/1962
34 1636 15/9/1941 34t 18cwt --- 9/1960 Express parcels car,
capacity 10 tons
35 1637 16/11/1941 36t 14cwt 60 4/1957 Destroyed by fire at St. Anne's Park, Bristol, 10th April 1956
36 1637 18/11/1941 37t 12cwt 44 4/1957 Destroyed by fire at St. Anne's Park, Bristol, 10th April 1956
37 1637 28/2/1942 36t 14cwt 60 9/1949 Damaged by fire in 1947 and stored until withdrawal
38 1637 28/2/1942 37t 12cwt 44 8/1962

       

Diesel Railcar Shed Allocations

Number First 31 Dec 1947 Last
1 Southall Reading Oxford
2 Tyseley Ebbw Junction Ebbw Junction
3 Cardiff Canton Landore Oxford
4 Tyseley Landore Ebbw Junction
5 Oxford Worcester Worcester
6 Worcester Worcester Worcester
7 Worcester Worcester Stourbridge
8 Stourbridge Stourbridge Stourbridge
9 Oxford ----- -----
10 Banbury Oxford Reading
11 Weymouth Oxford Landore
12 Oxford Reading Oxford
13 Neath Carmarthen Ebbw Junction
14 Pontypool Rd Worcester Stourbridge
15 Cheltenham Carmarthen Stourbridge
16 Ebbw Junction Landore Reading
17 Southall Southall Leamington
18 Reading Llantrisant Reading
19 Ebbw Junction Reading Cheltenham
20 Ebbw Junction Yeovil Worcester
21 Bristol Bath Rd Yeovil Southall
22 Ebbw Junction Worcester Worcester
23 Ebbw Junction Ebbw Junction Worcester
24 Bristol Bath Rd Yeovil Worcester
25 Worcester Cheltenham Bristol Bath Rd
26 Cheltenham Leamington Worcester
27 Ebbw Junction Worcester Southall
28 Ebbw Junction Yeovil Bristol Bath Rd
29 Ebbw Junction Leamington Reading
30 Ebbw Junction Pontypool Rd Southall
31 Llanelli Worcester Southall
32 Llanelli Worcester Worcester
33 Worcester Stourbridge Reading
34 Southall Southall Southall
35 Stourbridge Reading Bristol Bath Rd
36 Stourbridge Reading Bristol Bath Rd
37 Stourbridge Yeovil Bristol Bath Rd
38 Stourbridge Yeovil Reading

    

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