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    Unique coach is launched into service after half a century

    Oct 26, 2021 3 minutes
    Words and pictures by John Titlow

    ENTHUSIAST Robert Smallman bought the now-unique-GWR-bow-ended composite carriage No. 6045 from BR for £200 in 1972 – and officially launched it into Severn Valley Railway service on October 17.

    Half a century’s work on refurbishing the Collett coach to the condition in which it was built at Swindon in 1928 reached its conclusion when it ran in a special train from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth for GW(SVR) Association members and

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