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M&GN No.12 

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(Photo: HC Casserly)

(Photo:  Nigel Scarlett)

Key Facts

Restoration Progress
   
Number 12

Type

Brake down train riding van

Year of Manufacture

1881

Builder

Birmingham Railway Carriage Works

Owner

M&GNJRS

Status

Awaiting Collection

Comments

Unique.
The latest item in the JHCF fleet.
It was built 1881 by the  Birmingham Railway Carriage Works (BRCW) for the Lynn & Fakenham railway, which became the Eastern Midlands Railway in 1883 and then the M&GN in 1893. 
It was used for the Breakdown train based at Melton Constable as a riding van for the breakdown crew. It  had a tool box at one end and a veranda at the other.
It was withdrawn in 1945 and has been used as a garden shed since. The toolbox and the veranda were missing, these have been remanufactured and will soon be fitted.
A ex-royal Navy under frame has been purchased and arrived, it will be converted to the brake van length. The photo shows the van body temporarily placed on the under-frame for the new floor to be added.
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