DM395228 'Motive Power Diesel Instruction Car Lecture Car 58' - Derby Works.
Former LMS Period 2 (1929-1932) passenger coach in faded/rusty BR lined maroon and numbered in the departmental series DM395228 - 'Motive Power Diesel Instruction Car Lecture Car 58', was stabled alongside Derby Works with an ex LMS Sleeping Car on August 5th 1978. The well-worn coach had been heavily modified for its role as a classroom with doors and windows plated over and the corridor connections removed. Presumably used as a mobile facility visiting steam depots during the period when diesels were arriving on the BR network, where on earth had this relic been located to have survived until 1978? It had a Rail Blue 'patch' over one of the windows. Unfortunately it appears to have since been scrapped.
DM395228 'Motive Power Diesel Instruction Car Lecture Car 58' - Derby Works.
Former LMS Period 2 (1929-1932) passenger coach in faded/rusty BR lined maroon and numbered in the departmental series DM395228 - 'Motive Power Diesel Instruction Car Lecture Car 58', was stabled alongside Derby Works with an ex LMS Sleeping Car on August 5th 1978. The well-worn coach had been heavily modified for its role as a classroom with doors and windows plated over and the corridor connections removed. Presumably used as a mobile facility visiting steam depots during the period when diesels were arriving on the BR network, where on earth had this relic been located to have survived until 1978? It had a Rail Blue 'patch' over one of the windows. Unfortunately it appears to have since been scrapped.