Photo: City of Antwerp
Archaeologists preparing for a forthcoming construction project in Belgium could not believe their eyes when their excavation unearthed a British train carriage from 1930. The astounding discovery reportedly occurred this past January and came to light last week when the city of Antwerp shared photos (seen below) of the wondrous find on social media. The find is particularly perplexing as the carriage once belonged to the London North Eastern Railway, though how the nearly century-old carriage wound up buried 200 miles away in a park known as Noordkasteel is a mystery to both the train company and local officials.
More on this story at the Coast to Coast AM website.