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| Class 128 Gloucester MPV Parcels cars |
| Built by Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co | |
| Introduced : 1959 | Coupling Code : Blue Square |
| Body : 64ft 6in x 9ft 3in | Engines : BUT (Leyland Albion) of 230hp |
| Transmission : Standard mechanical | |
Initially only eight sets were ordred by the BTC, this was changed to ten by the time the BUT ordered the power units from Leyland Motors Ltd in Nov. '58 (an order worth £86,000).
Four cars were for the LMR, and the remainder for the WR. Fitted with 2 x 230hp Leyland Albion engines this made them very powerful for a 40/41 ton single car unit. They had a payload of 10 tons, and could take a tail load of up to 64 tons.
These cars, along with the three Cravens parcels units, enabled a through parcels service to be provided where there was not a regular passenger service, or where station times were not sufficient to permit the loading and unloading of mail from regular passenger services.
Blue square multiple working allowed them to be coupled to most other DMUs.
The last cars were withdrawn in 1991 and none were preserved.