Coach interiors

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Malcolm
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Coach interiors

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I have been asked a few times if I have any photos of LNER coach interiors. I've already posted a few, but this one intriques me. It looks suspiciously like the interior of a tourist stock coach, but I'm not sure (the bucket seats suggest this). Anyway, a rare photo. Any thoughts?

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Certainly is a TTO, whether it is a teak bodied TTO or a dedicated Tourist Stock TTO, I'm not sure. (Was there a difference internally) Interior photographs always fascinates me, I think it has something to do with them not being as widely photographed as the trains themselves.

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Yes this is a DIA 186 teak body TTO. the sliding lights give it away. the painted Tourist stock had 3 panes in the sliding lights whereas the teak stock had the standerd 4. A few of coarse survive including the ones on the NYMR restored by the LNER coach association(shamless plug). The LNERCA are always on the look out for interior shots in their quest to identify seating moquette. They are trying to track down the makers part number for ordinary third class gresley compartment stock and also Thompson third class compartment stock. If any body has any info it would be most welcome, actual samples even better. I don't think i would fancy sitting virtually under a parrifin heater suspended from two joined pieces of wood.
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Excellent photo and very useful. We (the LNERCA) have been trying to establish when the bucket seats were replaced with the standard high backed seats.
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Okay,

Here are the last of the coach interior shots I have.
(Sorry about the quality of the shot of the tourist stock).

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And to follow up (well it's technically the exterior) a shot of a Gresley coach being built.

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Some very interesting shots there Malcolm.

I especially like the shot of the RTS First class dining coach and the Green and Cream TTO interior shot. It gives a clear comparison between that and the NYMR's examples which looking from the photograph just shows how accurate and how much work the lads and lasses at the LNERCA have put into them; well done and I look forward to working the 'new' Thompson corridor which will be out and about before long if work continues at the pace it has been.

Just one question about the 'Office' which was available for use by passengers, was it a place where passengers went to do their work or did they give their letters, paperwork to clerks who then typed it up and returned it?

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Karl,

From what I can gather, both.

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Never say "never again". (Again, sorry for the quality).
I have some doubts about the second one due to the lettering on the anti********* (we're not supposed to say that word).

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Unclemacasars is the word Malcolm!
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John B wrote:Unclemacasars is the word Malcolm!
still dont think its pc ??how about .............................???
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A nice interior shot of a very important coach.

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Anti + macassar proprietary name of a kind of hair oil.

Covering thrown over cushions etc to protect them from grease in the hair or merely as an ornament. Still in use on trains today though now usually made of paper. (Oxford English Dictionary).
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Still use cloth antimacassars here in Japan on Shinkansens, limited expresses, and various other fast rains. They still love their hair oils here in Japan....and that's just the men. You can tell if there has been a man sitting in a window seat, or standing leaning on window by the great gobby greasy patch on the glass.

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I know that strictly speaking they are not LNER, but coach interior shots are very rare.

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