February - Intercity Railway Society

The first examples had a short square cornered section end section added, roughly 2ft in height. This
design appears not to have been used on that many and altered to the much widely used second
design of extension. This was roughly 4ft in height, depending on whether it was an OBA or OCA
which had different height ends, but the top corners were angled. Interestingly there are some odd
examples where the shorter OCA extension has been used on an OBA, possibly as a repair so the
total height is shorter. This is more striking with the livery variation as can be seen with 112387 in the
photo above.
110208 an example of an OBA conversion from lot 3909
but with the later style of tapered stanchions, Elgin Yard, 23 rd January 2012
112341 an example of an OCA conversion from lot 4014 in blue livery showing the
wooden floor and square style stanchions, Elgin Yard, 3 rd August 2011
All the conversions feature removable stanchions of two designs which retained either 3 or 4 stacks of
timber. The original square hollow style fit into pockets welded to and protrude above the floor edge.
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