Ten of these cars were built between 1906 and 1909. They entered service as ABVE, numbers 1 - 10. They were express stock with First and Second Class sitting accommodation.
In the 1910 recoding the cars were relettered to ABE with numbers retained.
Six more cars were built for this class in 1910, numbers 11 - 16.
Between 1970 and 1982 four of the class were scrapped. Nine cars were recoded to _BE_ in 1981.