650 Open Brake

Collett open brake third. Built 1940. Purchased in 1989 from Kerne Bridge. This carriage is one of two built to run with the final excursion sets although by the time they were built, they went straight into general use. This carriage ended its days as a dormitory for the Gloucester Boys Club at Kerne Bridge station, long shut. It was first moved to the sugar beet factory in Kidderminster being moved to the Valley when the sugar beet closed down. Likely to be the next carriage in the restoration programme, a lot of work has already gone into providing the missing pieces of interior so that its eventual restoration should be a fairly quick operation.

Also see the 650 restoration pages.

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650 waits in the dark of Kidderminster carriage shed, April 2004.