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The Festiniog Railway has three carriages with open sides. They are added to service trains in good weather, to offer passengers an alternative to travelling in a closed carriage. The open carriages are usually placed immediately behind the locomotive on the Up run. Usually known as the "Tourist Cars", two of these carriages were built in 1971 at Boston Lodge. No. 37 is a semi-open four-compartment tourist carriage built by FR Co. at Boston Lodge on a much older Hudson bogie wagon underframe (ex No. 70, from FR EAG 1970, originally supplied by Gloster Carriage & Wagon Co. to Leighton Buzzard Lt Rly 1923). When constructed, some of the half-height doors from Carriage 23 were fitted to this carriage and to Carriage 38. The photo shows the interior of No. 37 in May 2003. Photo credit: Norman Bond |