Mystery LNER Train Found In Belgium
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on RAILUK.
These four paragraphs detail what is known about the wagon.
More than 400 miles from LNER’s current home in York, an LNER train has been unearthed by archaeologists in Antwerp in Belgium.
The modern-day operator of trains on the East Coast Mainline has been in touch with the team who dug up the wagon to try and find out more about the curious discovery.
It appears that the find is a wooden removals truck, used to carry people’s belongings when they moved house. It’s thought to be almost a hundred years old.
It’s a mystery as to how the carriage came to be in Antwerp, and unfortunately there’s very little left of the relic as it disintegrated while being excavated.
It’s a story to go with London Bus Found On The Moon, that was published in the Daily Sport.
The Anonymous Widower 
Throughout the 1930s and even before then LNER ran the ferry service from Harwich to Zeebrugge.Right from the inception of LNER in 1923 employed two secondhand ferries that had been built during WW1 to ferry rail wagon from the South Coast of England to France for the war effort.This link probably gives a hint to how the LNER wagon unearthed in Antwerp came to be there.https://igg.org.uk/rail/7-fops/fo-ferry.htm
Comment by fammorris | March 22, 2024 |
But quite likely to be true. Probably went over on a rail ferry before WWII and got lost / abandoned after Belgium was over-run by the nazis.
Comment by R. Mark Clayton | March 22, 2024 |
I just came across a series of photos taken of the excavation of the furniture container, well worth a look.
https://media.lantis.be/web/1ae574e019e71014/opgraving-treinwagon-noordkasteel/?viewType=grid0.
I also read somewhere that they change from Red Oxide to Blue in 1935.
Comment by fammorris | March 23, 2024 |