This ex-GNR 6-wheeled Luggage Brake is believed to have been constructed at Doncaster in 1897. Originally it was gas lit, vacuum fitted, teak panelled, with Mansell wheels. Currently it has no lighting, is vacuum piped, plywood stained and varnished, with steel disc wheels. The long term aim will be to repanel the coach in teak and install a new roof canvas, as the old one has failed.

Of the many hundreds of these vehicles built, only one other survives in York's Railway museum. This type of vehicle was attached to the Flying Scotsman trains of its day, and would have been part of the trains that ran in the Railway Races to the North in the late 1890's.

It was withdrawn by the LNER in 1938 and converted to a machine fitter's van. In the 1960's it became a weighing machine van for Henry Pooley & Co., when it was numbered DE940400. It was used extensively in the Peterborough area.

In 1971 it was acquired by the Nene Valley Railway who used it for serving refreshments. When it became surplus to their requirements, it was kindly donated to Quainton, arriving during early 2003. The Nene Valley Railway have restored it twice since they acquired it in 1971, but it has deteriorated since and requires period correct features installed. It will be kept undercover at Quainton, to ensure there is no further deterioration.