Diesel railcar No.W14W at Stourbridge Town in 1957 with a service over the 1,600 yards long branch from Stourbridge Junction. The railcars took over from the previous steam powered autotrain at the end of 1956. In the 1950s two of these railcars normally operated the complete off-peak Snow Hill to Dudley shuttle between them, all through the day, but augmented by steam in the rush hour, as well as shuttling backwards and forwards on the short distance service between Old Hill and Dudley. W14W was one of three of the former G.W.R Railcars shedded at Stourbridge Junction at this period in time. Built in 1936 and originally equipped with a single A.E.C. engine giving 121 h.p. the Railcar later had her power output doubled when a second power unit was installed , and she could accommodate seventy seated passengers. There were variations in design and use , the class of 35 in 1956 being allocated to a total of thirteen Motive Power Depots , three sites being in South Wales at Cardiff 's Landore and Canton Depots and at Carmarthen with each of those sheds having a single Railcar on their books. ( W11W at Landore , W13W at Canton and W15W at Carmarthen ) The remaining Railcars were spread over the Western Region ranging from Worcester and