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GNR 2701 Composite Corridor

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[[File: {{Infobox carriage|image = LNER_2701_20150307.jpg |thumb|300px|right| caption = GNR (LNER) Corridor Composite No 2701]]|construc = 1922|status = Operational|carno = 2701|othernos = LNER 42701 <br>BR E42701E|designed = Gresley|cartype = CK|built = Doncaster|years1 = 1958|events1 = Converted to camping coach|years2 = 1964|events2 = Departmental use|years3 = 1994|events3 = Entered preservation|years4 = 2008|events4 = Entered service|years5 = |events5 = |years6 = |events6 = }}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 three and a half compartments and 24 in four 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 when, together with sister carriage No 69, it was converted at Stratford to a camping coach and stationed at Mundsley until closure in 1964. Following transfer to departmental stock its long and varied career on "The Big Railway" ended c1980 at Boston serving as the painter's bothy.
2701 was then purchased by the landlord of the Plough Inn, a few miles away at Swineshead. Following a difficult road transfer involving a lorry and two cranes [http://www.lnersvrcoachfund.org.uk/boston_lift.html recounted here] 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 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.

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