Great Western Railway Collett Coaches

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1930-33 Cross Country Service stock had a similar profile to the co-built Tapered Side stock but was 3" narrower at the waist and 6" narrower at the cornice. Despite it not being necessary to keep within the loading gauge, the door handles were recessed like the contemporary mainline stock. However the guard's doors were built to the body profile and not recessed. With the exception of the H38 Composite Diner, which rode on 9' bogies, they rode on 7' bogies. The Composite Diner departed from the normal of having the kitchen in the middle and instead had it at one end, with the first class diners adjacent to it and the third class furthest away.

Dimensions
Width over cornices	8' 5½
Width over body at waist	9' 0
Width over handles	9' 3
Height to gutters	10' 7¼
Height to top of roof	12' 5
Height over ventilators	12' 11¼
Length over sides	60' 0
Length over bow ends	Corridor - 61' 4½ Non-corridor - 61' 2
Wheelbase	53' 6

Diagram	Dimensions Length x Width Wheelbase		Numbers		Conversions
C60 8 compartment corridor third 2 lavatories.	7' bogies	55 built in 1930 20 built in 1931	5243 to 5257, 5315 to 5354 5689 to 5708	C60 or C62 © JAGH Coltas	All were condemned between 1960 and 1962.
C63 9 compartment non-corridor third	7' bogies	16 built in 1932	5673 to 5688		All were condemned between 1957 and 1960.
D107 3 compartment corridor brake van third 1 lavatory.	7' bogies	12 built in 1930	5303 to 5314		All were condemned between 1959 and 1962.
D112 6 compartment non-corridor brake van third	7' bogies	30 built in 1931	5637 to 5666		All were condemned between 1957 and 1962.
E139 7 compartment corridor composite 2 lavatories. 4 first class and 3 third class compartments	7' bogies	8 built in 1930	6176 to 6179, 6182 to 6185		All were condemned between 1961 and 1962.
G59 Corridor First Saloon 5 dining tables seating 14 people, pantry, kitchen, lavatory, small compartment and saloon seating 8 with writing table windows in ends	7' bogies	2 built in 1930	9004 & 9005	No. 9004 @ Toddington 2012 © Hugh Llewelyn / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)	Saloons modernised and enlarged, toplights in main windows replaced with sliding ventilators in 1947 9005 converted to G66 in 1961 9004 condemned in 1963, now preserved. Now fitted with Pullman gangway and drop-head buckeye, ETH amd air brakes
G66 Corridor First Saloon 5 dining tables seating 14 people, pantry, kitchen, lavatory, small compartment and saloon seating 8 around a table windows in ends	BR B4 bogies fitted to underframe of D108 5300	1 converted in 1961 from G59	9005		Condemned in 1974
H38 Composite Diner 7 third class dining tables seating 4 & 1 third class dining table seating 3, 2 first class dining tables seating 4 & 2 first class dining tables seating 2, kitchen	9' bogies	8 built in 1931	9601 to 9610		All were condemned in 1962.
K40 Passenger brake van	7' bogies	10 built in 1930 25 built in 1931	1175 to 1184 3 to 6, 9, 11, 13, 19, 27, 28, 31 to 7, 39, 41, 43, 51, 53, 55 to 57		39, 81 and 1177 converted to L26 TPO in 1960 All were condemned between 1962 and 1966.

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