An Old Saucer

One of the (few) joys of digging in the water tower garden is that old railway relics keep being unearthed - telegraph insulators mainly.

Yesterday however this curiosity came to the surface.  The remains of a saucer - not a thing of beauty or of any value but intriguing:

Interpolating the wording and checking the crest it was from the Great Northern Railway Company.  It is heavy and has an oversized central base as might be expected in a train's restaurant car, subject to oscillations and spillage.

Googling, as you do these days, the manufacturer P.P. & Co Ltd was Pearl Pottery of Hanley, Stoke on Trent who are on record as having supplied the GN Rly Co with crockery.

So far so good but why did it end up at Settle station?  The GNR and the Midland did join forces but only in East Anglia and Lincolnshire and did not use this Midland Railway line.

One wonders what the story is?   Was it 'borrowed' as a souvenir, used, broke and slung?   If it was railway workers involved it is unlikely that their tea drinking involved saucers.   Any thoughts anyone?