BR Mk 1 coaching stock handles all the Railway's passenger requirements at the moment, although the painstaking task of restoring historic passenger vehicles is progressing.
Several are still in their original role, moving materials and in use extending and maintaining the Railway. Others have been collected for their own sakes, as historic artifacts.
Restoration also extends to these, as the pictures alongside show. The collection of restored vehicles has grown to the point where it is possible to run demonstration goods trains.
The railway is home to many other vehicles used for a variety of tasks. Some are Permanant Way machines which help with the maintenance of the the track or convey staff along the length of the line.
The frames were built by BREL Swindon in 1979/1980 and it then went by rail to Plasser and Theurer of West Ealing to be fitted with the crane body.
81522 initially entered service with BR and ended its mainline service with Balfour Beatty Rail.
It was privately purchased in 2020 by a member of the S&CR and arrived at Blunsdon on the 16th of July that year. It was returned to near original livery by a small team of S&CR volunteers over the course of 2022 to 2023. After undergoing lift testing it was passed fit for service on the 26th September 2023.
