374-680C BR MK2A BSO Brake Second Open BR Blue & Grey No.W9434 Brand_Peco 359 came from an earlier

359 came from an earlier batch of ten locomotives built at Stratford in 1892 and was rebuilt in 1904 into the R24r Class

The operational and warning labels instead were bilingual - another unique oddity to these cars

Closed by BR in 1962

The sliding doors made them quite unusual

the six third class restaurant dining saloons were reclassified as open thirds

374-680C BR MK2A BSO Brake Second Open BR Blue & Grey No.W9434 Brand_Peco 359 came from an earlierBritish Rails second generation of standard coach was designated the Mk2, following on from the highly successful Mk1 series. Unlike the Mk1s however, the Mk2s evolved through different build batches, and such were the changes that a letter suffix was attributed to identify each of the different variants. Fewer coach types were built, with construction concentrating on vehicles offering standard accommodation of both first and second class, plus