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    ‘Lost’ third GWR Victorian sleeping car is rediscovered

    Jun 07, 2022 2 minutes
    By Mike Thompson

    HEN one of the West Somerset Railway charities, the Steam Trust (now the WSR HeritageTrust) started a 20-year restoration of its GWR Victorian sleeping car No. 9038 back in the 1980s for display in the Gauge Museum at Bishops Lydeard, members knew that just three cars were originally built by the GWR at Swindon in 1897 as

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