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[[File: LNER_70759_20150315.jpg |thumb|300px|right| LNER Pigeon Van 70759]]
70759 was built in 1943 as Gangwayed Full Brake/Pigeon Van (Type BGP). In around 1945 the guard's compartment was enclosed in response to complaints that the guards were feeling the cold. After withdrawal by BR in 1972, it was used as a store by publishers David & Charles in Newton Abbott. It later moved to the South Devon Railway where it was again used as a store.
70759 was purchased by [[The LNER (SVR) Coach Fund]] in 2005, arriving at Bewdley in March of that year. Initially it was used as a combined store and Station Fund shop, before restoration began to return the vehicle to service as a second LNER brake van for the teak set.
Part of the restoration involved moving the body of 70759 from its original heavily corroded underframe onto the newly refurbished underframe of another Gangwayed Full Brake/Pigeon Van, No 70442 (formerly LNER 4069). A time lapse video of the move which took place on 12 July 2011 is available on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTLy7qBSf4 Youtube]. The restoration of 70759 will also see has seen the larger van portion converted to 4 passenger compartments with a corridorand toilet; the small van and guard's compartment is being have been restored to 1950s vintage condition, and the original condition with pigeon rackshave been refitted.
Parts have been recovered from the body of 70442 for use in the restoration on 70759 and elsewhere, while the underframe of 70759 will also be has been dismantled for spare sections, the centre portion having been retained at Kidderminster carriage works as a strong and stable workbench.
70759 was one of three coaches which in 2010 were gifted by the LNER (SVR) Coach Fund to the SVR Rolling Stock Trust (now the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd]]), along with 24068 and 43600.
