FR Carriages

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This page deals with FR coaching stock in the preservation era - many vehicles date back to before 1954. Because some vehicles have been renumbered and because some carriages and vans have carried the same numbers, a ready reference guide to numbering changes in the post-preservation era has been prepared and can be accessed here.

A full survey of pre-preservation coaching stock can be found at Carriages (Pre Preservation).

Updated details of the Carriage Sets currently used in operation can be found at Carriage sets


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[edit]PRE-PRESERVATION COACHING STOCK SERIES

The old FR Co. numbered its public passenger carriages, passenger brake/luggage vans, quarrymen's carriages and goods brake vans in four, separate, series.

Following preservation a unified numbering series was adopted. The three four-wheeled ex Quarrymen's brakevans and the three bogie brake vans that had been adapted to include passenger compartments were renumbered using vacant slots among the surviving carriages, ie 1, 2, 8, 10, 11 & 12. By 1996 the restoration/replication of carriages had, or soon would have, recreated the vehicles that originally carried these numbers, a situation inconceivable to the preservation pioneers. In order to accommodate all the vehicles the heritage bogie vans, including the newly-built 'curly roof van' have been renumbered into their own separate series, along with the four-wheeled vans that are fitted with vacuum brakes.


[edit]4 Wheeled Coaching stock

    • Carriage 1 - the replica "small Birmingham" "zoo car" previously numbered Carriage 9
    • Carriage 2 - previously numbered Carriage 6
    • Carriage 3 - "small Birmingham"
    • Carriage 4 - "small Birmingham"
    • Carriage 5 - "small Birmingham"
    • Carriage 8 - Quarrymen's Carriage
    • Carriage 9 - Second generation small Birmingham Type no longer exists but replica 10 built
    • Carriage 10 - the 2006 replica "Ashbury" First Class
    • The Flying Bench - officially allocated number 12 per the current rule book, but still carrying the number 7
    • Carriage 12 - a replica "Porthole Bugbox" under construction
    • Carriage 13 - similar to Flying Bench. It survived just into preservation era, but was an early candidate for scrapping
    • old Van 1 - withdrawn from service in 1963 and no longer exists
    • Van 6 - ex Quarrymen's Carriage - balcony at one end only
    • Van 7- replica of old Van 1 above - ex quarrymen's carriage with two balconies

[edit]Bogie Coaching stock


[edit]POST PRESERVATION SERIES

[edit]See also

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