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The QM brake vans were used on all sorts of traffic on the Southern and were last used on the Southern (my memory) on the Channel Tunnel project being used as propelling control vehicles on the fully fitted services conveying mine waste from Snowdon Collery to Shakespeare Cliffe (vehicle was painted in Trainload Construction livery). Several survived into latter service including the preserved example on the Spa Valley Railway which arrived in EWS livery from Toton.
Some examples were infact converted from Metropolitan Carriage Wagon & Finance Co motor luggage vans built in 1923-4 for the Central division AC overhead services, being converted in the 1930's as the AC system was converted to the usual DC third rail supply.