Camping Holidays ; Camping Coaches, Youth Hostels, Sites for Camps : C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne and Gypsy Petulengro : London & North Eastern Railway, 1939

            Book No. 17 issued by the London & North Eastern Railway in its annual publications list was for "Camping Holidays" and this encompassed a range of outdoor holidays based around the network of the railway. As well as an extensive list of camp sites, including facilities, the book includes details of Youth Hostels and the "Camping Coaches" run by the LNER themselves. 

These had been instituted by the LNER in 1933 and consisted of retired carriage stock that were converted into accomodation, kitchen and sleeping accomodation and that were situated on sidings at stations; mostly on lines still open to passenger service but a few remote sites on lines that had already lost passenger services. Part of the deal was that when booking the Coach you had to travel there by LNER train! The Coach was fully equipped with utensils and bedding and the book gives details of how to write to the local Station Master to enquire as to issues such as shopping, groceries and local services.

The Camping Coach movement continued into Nationalisation days and even now, in private hands, a very few remain 'in-situ'. The book has a heavily touched up photo for the front cover showing a Camping Coach along with the writer of one of the sections of the book the famous Gypsy Petulengro. Xavier Petulengro (8 July 1878 - 16 June 1957) was a successful Romani writer, broadcaster and businessman.

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