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M&GN - 3

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Number M&GN 3
Type FZ
Year of Manufacture 1886
Builder MR Derby
Owner M&GNJRS
Status Out of Service in Sheringham Yard-awaiting restoration
Comments

Built in 1886 by Midland Railway, Derby as Lot 102, Diagram 465, Running No 1616.
Transferred to the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway in 1903, becoming running No 3.
Withdrawn from passenger duties in 1932, then used as departmental vehicle in the Signal & Telegraph Department as a mobile workshop / mess room.
Withdrawn in 1935. Body removed from underframe and used as a club house at Briston Recreation ground (next village to Melton Constable).
Moved to 9 Edgefield Road in 1937/8, transported by horse and cart. Manhandled over the garden wall by a group of men from the nearby Melton Constable railway works .
Returned at the end of 2002. Now under cover in the yard at Sheringham in the care of the M&GN Joint Railway Society.

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