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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Withdrawn from passenger duties in 1932, then used as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Withdrawn in 1935.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
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