 While on the TranzCoastal it was fitted with air-conditioning.This is not the first time this carriage has worked the Wairarapa services; in 1995, while assigned to the NIMT and sporting the InterCity blue with white stripe and green band, it ran on the Wairarapa Connection for a time with the first car-van to receive a generator.In 2006, Hillside Engineering won the contract from the Greater Wellington Regional Council to rebuild 18 British Rail Mark 2 carriages to replace the fleet.