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Southern Railway
DS164 - S&T Mess & Tool Van

(formerly Passenger Luggage Van No. 1184)

1184 at Sheffield Park in July 2006. (Martin Skrzetuszewski)

1184 was built in 1936 at the Southern Railway's Ashford Works as a Passenger Luggage Van. British Railways gave these PLVs the new classification Parcels and Miscellaneous Van (PMV). S1184 continued in revenue service until 1957 when it was converted to a staff mess and tool van for the S&T Department on the Southern Region, acquiring the number DS164. After withdrawal it was purchased for the Bluebell Railway S&T Department, arriving on 2nd June 1986.

This vehicle is considered to be the one best able to fulfil the proposal in the BRPS Objectives, Aims & Plans to preserve one vehicle in departmental "Mess & Tool Van" condition.

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Type: SR Passenger Luggage Van (PLV)
BR Classification: PMV
Built: June 1935, SR Ashford Works
Order No: A824
SR Diagram No: 3103
Original No: 1184
Other Nos: S1184(S), DS164, KDS164
Length: 32'
Weight: 13 tons
To Service Stock: December 1957
Withdrawn: 1986?
Preserved: 1986
To Bluebell Railway: 2nd June 1986

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