Mystery ex-LNER Coach

[Bullhead]

I've been sorting through the various 35mm slides I took years ago and came across this, which shows what looks to be an ex-LNER coach of some description in departmental use (as a "Degreasing Van", so I presume it contains tanks of unpleasant solvents) at Bounds Green in February 1985. It looks like it's numbered 040877 and carries a warning that it's out of gauge. Does anyone know what it was originally (I don't)?

[hq1hitchin]

It looks older than LNER to me - pre-grouping, GNR or ECJS perhaps?

[Trestrol]

It's a North Eastern Railway dineing car. It was used for cleaning grills and ovens from restaurant cars at Bounds Green. Now at the Great central.

[Wavey]

Link to page on VCT Carriage Survey site:

http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org ... sp?Ref=906

[Bullhead]

Thanks to one and all for the answers. I must pay a trip to the GCR one of these days.

[scottiedog]

It might be a North Eastern Railway Coach - possibly Dia 155 Open Third, first built in 1908. I think that a number were converted by the LNER to Buffet Cars , in the early 1930s.

[Wavey]

The link to the VCT site I posted earlier says it was built in 1922 to Dia 204.

[Bryan]

A mystery solved.
I have been asking around if anyone knew about a Degreasing van normally stabled on the Up Side between Peterborough and London.
I used to see it frequently in passing during the mid - late 80s