THE LNER Coach Association is pushing forward in its quest to complete two early dining cars for potential eventual use on the NorthYorkshire Joint Railway, with much of the mahogany timber needed to completely rebuild the body of a further vintage dining car (NER open third 2118) also acquired and in store.
The group’s flagship project, East Coast Joint Stock No. 189, a third class diner from 1894, has undergone major work over the years, including rebuilding and shortening an underframe from an early Gresley vehicle with a turnbuckle-trussed underframe from a gangwayed carriage. This was necessary to provide an underframe that could be fitted with Pullman gangways, so as to be compatible with the other gangwayed carriages in the LNERCA
