Carriage 117
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| Carriage 117 | |
| Built By | Boston Lodge |
| Frames | ex IOM R8 |
| Designation | 3rd Saloon (All Steel) |
| Seating | Third x 37 |
| Length | 36ft 6ins |
| Body Width | 6ft 4ins |
| Width | 6ft 2ins |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Date Built | 1977 |
| 1980 | refitted |
| 1990 | Refitted with new windows, new seating, push-pull equipment and gas-fired heating |
| Operating | FR |
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Contents |
[edit]Background
An "all steel" saloon carriage with semi-stressed skin, built at Boston Lodge after a review of profiles within the loading gauge and the kinematic envelope. The inside of the saloon is 3½ inches wider than that of the wooden bodied "Centenary Stock" and 5 inches wider than the prototype Carriage 116.
Refitted 1989/90 under INCA programme. Pattern 88 bogies, "Beclawat" windows, and heating.
Cabled and plumbed for Push Pull operation.
*Date: 4th January 2006 *Photo: Stewart D. Macfarlane
The top half of the picture shows the external view. The high vacuum pipe can be discerned along the bottom of the underframe (especially on the left) for use when used for push-pull operation.
The lower half of the picture shows the internal arrangement - lower left is looking "up" towards Blaenau; lower right is looking "down" towards Caernarfon. In common with the other FR corridor carriages, the double seats are on the view side when traversing the Vale of Ffestiniog. Features in this carriage are the eave mounted lighting and PA system speakers. At the down end of the carriage can be seen the compartment which houses the gas fired heating equipment (boiler, gas cannisters and header tank). The arrangement of the double seats means that there is a "luggage area" in the centre of the carraige of the brake cylinder.