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GNR 2701 was built at Doncaster in August 1922 as one of ten carriages to Diagram 164K. It is a Corridor Composite (CK), seating 21 first class passengers in first class compartments and 24 in third class compartments. The carriage was involved in a collision at Retford during its first year of use, but survived to become LNER No 42701, and BR E42701E. It remained in passenger carrying service until 1958. It , when it was converted at Stratford to a camping coach and stationed at Mundsley until closure 1964, when it was . Then transferred to departmental stock its long and varied career on "The Big Railway" ended up c1980 at Boston serving as the carriage cleaners bothy.

Around 1980, 2701 was then purchased by the landlord of the Plough Inn, a few miles away at Swineshead, and following . Following a difficult road movement transfer involving a lorry and two cranes it was to be converted to a dining room, but the project failed to gain planning permission. Despite an attempt to preserve it in Norfolk, 2701 was transferred moved to another pub, at Stoneyford Lodge in Derbyshire, also with the intention of use as a dining room, but this time the adjacent open cast mine was extended over its intended site.

2701 was purchased in 1994 by [[The LNER (SVR) Coach Fund]] from The Stoneyford Lodge, with a view to restoration. The move to the SVR was achieved with the aid of a lorry, two cranes and some difficulty. In 2001 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of £84k towards the costof restoration, and the coach GNR No 2701 entered SVR service in July 2008, being formally launched into service on 16th August of that year by Mr Tim Godfrey, a grandson of Sir Nigel Gresley. It was declared the overall winner in the Heritage Railway Association Carriage & Wagon competition 2009<ref>vintagecarriagestrust.org</ref>.