The 2022 season for the LNER Coach Association, Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway came to a close last weekend.

Before 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley and the NYMR-based Teak set went their separate ways for winter maintenance, they paired up to form the annual LNERCA Members Special between Pickering and Grosmont, departing at 12:30.

A further twist was that the dining set departing Grosmont at a similar time was the NELPG’s annual dining special.

Back at the gala, younger visitors were amazed to find out that the the coaches were third class, with many comparing how comfortable they were compared to todays trains.

If you would like to help out at the LNER Coach Association, you can find out more information at https://www.lnerca.org/

Nick Stringer, chairman of the LNERCA, told Rail Advent “We are proud to have had the A4 and the teaks together on the Moors during October and have been overwhelmed by the interest in our coaches from the ‘Elegant Era of Rail Travel’.  In fact the six cars in the train, five Gresley teak bodied coaches including the buffet car and the unique Thompson third corridor in its post-war ‘ersatz teak’ livery, with the black A4  are representative of LNER top flight trains in the years between the end of the Second World War and Nationalisation”.

“We can use all skills from heavy engineering, through woodworking, painting and cleaning to marketing, explaining the story of coach development from the earliest days to the present and the essential administration of our charity and its finances. In fact our scarcest resource is new volunteers and distorting Kitchener’s appeal in the uncertain years between 1914 and 191, ‘Your Teak Train needs YOU’ volunteering is rewarding, worthwhile and low cost. An ideal activity for these uncertain days of 2022”.