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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It was withdrawn in 1945 and has been used as a garden shed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. |
