(If the authorities wish to move this to the preservation or international subforum, please do so).
A few days ago I was on a train passing through Stoke on Trent. In a siding a few hundred yards north of the station on the east side of the line I saw a coach which semed, from the brief glimpse I had of it, to be of somewhat old-fashioned Continental appearance, with set-back doors at each end like those in the coaches here and here. It was painted in a dark green livery (similar to the coaches in the first linked picture), with a Red Cross symbol on a white panel on the side. I didn't see it for long enough to judge whether it was built to fit a Continental structure gauge, although it wasn't conspicuously bigger than anything else in the sidings (and how could it have got there if it was?).
Does anyone know the history of this vehicle (ex-MOD? Something from a film set?) and what it's doing in Stoke?
A few days ago I was on a train passing through Stoke on Trent. In a siding a few hundred yards north of the station on the east side of the line I saw a coach which semed, from the brief glimpse I had of it, to be of somewhat old-fashioned Continental appearance, with set-back doors at each end like those in the coaches here and here. It was painted in a dark green livery (similar to the coaches in the first linked picture), with a Red Cross symbol on a white panel on the side. I didn't see it for long enough to judge whether it was built to fit a Continental structure gauge, although it wasn't conspicuously bigger than anything else in the sidings (and how could it have got there if it was?).
Does anyone know the history of this vehicle (ex-MOD? Something from a film set?) and what it's doing in Stoke?
