LNER Camping Coaches
In 1933 the London & North Eastern Railway came up with the novel concept of renting out some of it's withdrawn vintage rolling stock, after conversion, as holiday accomodation. Veteran carriages, mainly of Great Northern, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire origins, and to a lesser extent those of Great Eastern, East Coast Joint, and Great Central heritage, were thus deployed to sidings around their network. Three of these were based in Lincolnshire at: Woodhall Junction, Seacroft, and Theddlethorpe, the latter being illustrated below. An example of LNER publicity for these can be seen from extracts from the 1935 booklet below. Rental of these would require a valid rail ticket per person to the location of the carriages. Two types of carriage were available. For £2 10s 0d per week the carriage would require guests to exit the "Day Compartment" to access the bedrooms. £3 0s 0d would gain the user "superior"...