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GWR Centenary Coach Question

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Doomotron

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Early on in their lives, they had no sliding ventilators, meaning the windows didn't open. How was the train kept cool? I know that the wartime armoured Royal Train had air conditioning and that the Centenaries were meant to be an improvement of the Pullman design, so are they air-conditioned? Or is it something that forces air through like the Chiltern 165s and Vivarail 230s?
 
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Doomotron said:
Early on in their lives, they had no sliding ventilators, meaning the windows didn't open. How was the train kept cool? I know that the wartime armoured Royal Train had air conditioning and that the Centenaries were meant to be an improvement of the Pullman design, so are they air-conditioned? Or is it something that forces air through like the Chiltern 165s and Vivarail 230s?
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I believe it was just pressure ventilation through roof vents as built in 1935, altered to sliding ventilators in 1938.
 
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