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M&GN - 3

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01/03/09 Start of restoration, the underlying frame is in good condition. (photo Chris Green)

Number M&GN 3
Type FZ (First Class Saloon)
Year of Manufacture 1886
Builder MR Derby
Owner M&GNJRS
Status Out of Service in Weybourne Carriage shed being stripped for restoration
Comments

Built in 1886 by Midland Railway, Derby as Lot 102, Diagram 465, Running No 1616. Saloons could be hired by families, usually with servants facilities at one end, similar vehicles "invalid saloons" could be hired for bed bound travellers and their helpers.
Transferred to the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway in 1903, becoming running No 3, used as a general passenger vehicle.
Withdrawn from passenger duties in 1932, then used as departmental vehicle in the Signal & Telegraph Department as a mobile workshop / mess room.
Withdrawn in 1935.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 (2009) in Weybourne carriage shed in the care of the M&GN Joint Railway Society.

Click here for a drawing of the Saloon

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