39-533 SR QVV (Ex-PMV) Staff Tool Van BR Departmental Yellow ADB975960 Tools Mk3a stock differs from Mk3

Mk3a stock differs from Mk3 stock due to the inclusion of buffers as well as a different electrical system that uses motor generator units in each coach to power air conditioning and other ancillaries

and were the first British units to incorporate both pantograph and third rail pick ups

the wagon also features the iconic Hornby logo well-known in Britain and around the world

MU receptacles and cables per prototype

500 examples built 1950 – 1951

39-533 SR QVV (Ex-PMV) Staff Tool Van BR Departmental Yellow ADB975960 Tools Mk3a stock differs from Mk3Nearly 1,000 Passenger Luggage Vans (PLV) broadly to the same Southern Railway design were built for use in passenger trains and at express speeds to convey parcels, newspapers and various other forms or general merchandise. The design was adopted from the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR) and construction continued after Nationalisation until 1951 by which time BR had redesignated the vans as Parcels and Miscellaneous Vans (PMV). These were