LNER Carriage Group
In 2010 the Rolling Stock Trust added its first ex-LNER Gresley teak carriages to its growing collection of historic vehicles. To manage these additions the Trust has established a new department called the 'LNER Carriage Group’, which will undertake improvements and restoration projects for these vehicles. The LNER Carriage Group builds on the experience gained from over a third of a century’s work by the LNER (SVR) Coach Fund, whose aim since the 1970s has been a complete operational Gresley teak train on the Severn Valley Railway. The SVR’s public service ‘teak train’ now comprises seven fully operational varnished teak carriages, and the Coach Fund has been closely involved in all these restorations despite the vehicles being in various ownerships.
The newly acquired Trust Company vehicles are Kitchen Composite No 7960, Brake Composite No 24068, Tourist Third Opens No 43600 and 52255, and Gangwayed Brake Pigeon Van No 70759. Both 7960 and 52255 were previously in private ownership, and the remaining three have been gifted to the Trust by the LNER (SVR) Coach Fund.
Please see the Our Vehicles page for further information.
How to help
Three of the LNER carriages newly acquired by the Trust Company are the subject of active projects which are in their planning and fund-raising stages:
- The enhancement of the interiors of Tourist Third Opens 43600 and 52255 to give them the ‘Gresley touch’. You can help with this project by gift-aided dedicated donations to sponsor new fixtures and fittings.
- How to help with the improvements to 43600 and 52255 (PDF file).
The major restoration of 1943 Gresley Brake Pigeon Van No.70759, the completion of which will achieve the goal of an eight carriage public service LNER teak train. This will be a costly project requiring new teak and many other new items. Full details of sponsorship opportunities can be found at the link below.- How to help with the restoration and conversion 70759 (PDF file)
All help received towards our restoration work is greatly appreciated. Contributors sponsoring by dedicated donations or by regular donations for the for the work of the Trust’s LNER Carriage Group automatically become a “Friend of the Teak Train” and will receive occasional email newsletters with the latest news.
Contributors and others can follow the latest progress on the work of the LNER Carriage Group and other news about the SVR Teak Train via: http://lner.svr-rollingstocktrust.org.uk/
Particular queries about the work of the LNER Carriage Group may be emailed to:
webmaster@lner.svr-rollingstocktrust.org.uk