LYR 1507 6 wheel 5 compartment Third built 1882 (Newton Heath). Underframe removed and body relocated to Valley Gardens, Hapton near Burnley around 1910. Donated by the late Tom Bell in 1991 and painstakingly restored to working order (2005) over a period of 15 years, at a cost of £17,000. Incidentally Manchester United fans will of course know that the team
bearing that name was originally the team of workers at Newton Heath Works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Some history there I think.
Uses an underframe from an ex-LMS BGZ carriage M32988 built in 1938. This was acquired from the Strathspey Railway, where the body had been damaged beyond economical repair by an arson attack.
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