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LNER Coach Association reveals major developments for its fleet

THE LNER Coach Association (LNERCA) has unveiled several major developments that will make it one of the foremost railway carriage groups in the country.

Most significantly, it has taken out a five-year lease on an a 6000 sq ft industrial unit at Kirby Misperton, near Pickering – an off-railway workshop and storage area being next door to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s own carriage bogie overhaul facility.

The building can accommodate three carriages and it is to become the group’s main restoration base, with the group’s allocated space in

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