Originally Posted by
andyk
Sadly, the LOR carriage was in poor repair and I have no idea what has become of it.
Car 7 led a nomadic existence after the closure of the LOR being used as an office by a coal merchant and then a firm of car breakers, at some time after its sale from the LOR scrapline it lost it's bogies and almost all of it's interior fittings. before finally being sold to the Southport railway centre and housed in their shed, mounted on a pair of accommodation bogies. The closure of that centre in 1998 and the relocation of most of their stock to a new site in Preston once again left car No. 7 with an uncertain future as it was regarded as surplus to the requirements of the new centre and in need of a new home and a new owner.
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LOR 7 was moved to an electric railway museum near Coventry in August of 1998. Funds are now being raised to effect a full restoration on the coach but it is outside in poor shape.
Stephen Wolstenholme
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