British Railways Mk.1 Sleeper First (SLF) E2080
Peak Rail, 11 January 2014
While British Railways Mk.1 passenger carriages are incredibly commonplace on heritage railways, Mk.1 sleeping carriages are definitely a rarity with (as far as I’m aware) only six still in existence.
Most were built with asbestos insulation, which was expensive to remove professionally and so were sold for scrap but a few were bought by preservation societies for use as volunteer accommodation.
E2080 was built in 1959 by Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd and was preserved in 1983, initially on the Dart Valley Railway (now the South Devon Railway) before moving to target=”_blank”>Peak Rail in the late 1980s.
When I visited Peak Rail in April last year it was still undergoing restoration.
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