SR PMV 1703

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	SR 4w Parcels and Miscellaneous Van (PMV) no 1703 Above: SR parcels van 1703 standing on the former Bank Top branch siding at Dilhorne Park, awaiting roof and window repairs on 29 July 2007. When built at the Southern Railway's Lancing works in 1943, number 1703 was known as a Passenger Luggage Van (PLV) intended to carry parcels, newspapers, and many other forms of general merchandise. A similar design featured end doors and were known as Covered Carriage Trucks, or CCTs. Rated to run in passenger trains, they were frequently used as extra luggage vans on longer distance trains. The design was based on one design of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway that became the standard for the Southern Railway. A total of 979 such vans were built to basically the same design, right up to 1951. Under British Railways ownership from 1948 this type was known as a Parcels and Miscellaneous Van or PMV, and 1703 became S1703S, the prefix denoting the operating region and the suffix the maintaining region - Southern in both cases. This van runs on a long wheelbase four wheeled underframe and has four pairs of hinged doors, and side windows protected by metal bars. The SR designs of van were withdrawn in the 1970s and 80s due to a downturn in parcels traffic, which could be adequately handled by more recent BR standard types. Number 1703 was purchased from BR and delivered by rail to Meaford Power station, from where it made the road journey to Foxfield on 11 June 1983. It was originally acquired with a view to stripping the body from the underframe and using the latter to carry the body of MR Family Saloon number 2741. The saloon has since left Foxfield for restoration at Peak Rail in Derbyshire and so the PMV van is currently used as a store, largely in the condition in which it arrived. For the Vintage Carriage Survey entry for SR PMV 1703 see: http://vintagecarriagestrust.org/sd/436.HTM A large number of these PMVs and the similar CCTs have been preserved, and also used as donors of underframes for the restoration of grounded carriage bodies, notably at the Bluebell Railway and the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. Good examples that have been restored are: PMV number 1108 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, and PMVs number 1788 and 2186 at the Bluebell Railway, Sussex Below: SR 4 wheel PMV diagram

SR 4w Parcels and Miscellaneous Van (PMV) no 1703

Above: SR parcels van 1703 standing on the former Bank Top branch siding at Dilhorne Park, awaiting roof and window repairs on 29 July 2007.

When built at the Southern Railway's Lancing works in 1943, number 1703 was known as a Passenger Luggage Van (PLV) intended to carry parcels, newspapers, and many other forms of general merchandise. A similar design featured end doors and were known as Covered Carriage Trucks, or CCTs. Rated to run in passenger trains, they were frequently used as extra luggage vans on longer distance trains. The design was based on one design of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway that became the standard for the Southern Railway. A total of 979 such vans were built to basically the same design, right up to 1951. Under British Railways ownership from 1948 this type was known as a Parcels and Miscellaneous Van or PMV, and 1703 became S1703S, the prefix denoting the operating region and the suffix the maintaining region - Southern in both cases. This van runs on a long wheelbase four wheeled underframe and has four pairs of hinged doors, and side windows protected by metal bars.

The SR designs of van were withdrawn in the 1970s and 80s due to a downturn in parcels traffic, which could be adequately handled by more recent BR standard types. Number 1703 was purchased from BR and delivered by rail to Meaford Power station, from where it made the road journey to Foxfield on 11 June 1983. It was originally acquired with a view to stripping the body from the underframe and using the latter to carry the body of MR Family Saloon number 2741. The saloon has since left Foxfield for restoration at Peak Rail in Derbyshire and so the PMV van is currently used as a store, largely in the condition in which it arrived.

For the Vintage Carriage Survey entry for SR PMV 1703 see: http://vintagecarriagestrust.org/sd/436.HTM

A large number of these PMVs and the similar CCTs have been preserved, and also used as donors of underframes for the restoration of grounded carriage bodies, notably at the Bluebell Railway and the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. Good examples that have been restored are:
PMV number 1108 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, and
PMVs number 1788 and 2186 at the Bluebell Railway, Sussex

Below: SR 4 wheel PMV diagram