374-562B GWR Hawksworth Composite Corridor BR Maroon W7818W Brand_Digital-Plus-by-Lenz November 1943

November 1943

ESU has been working with us since the start of the project

Plywood body construction came about as a result of a shortage of wooden planks at the end of the last war

R-0012 RAIL CENTER Signal Yellow

PROTOTYPE SPECIFIC INFORMATIONIn 1984

374-562B GWR Hawksworth Composite Corridor BR Maroon W7818W Brand_Digital-Plus-by-Lenz November 1943Frederick W. Hawksworth was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR), succeeding Charles Collett in 1941, and his coach designs were the final evolution of passenger stock built by the GWR, being designed at the end of World War Two and entering traffic from 1947 onwards. With the Nationalisation of Britains railways in 1948, construction continued under BR and the final examples were outshopped during the 1950s. Intended