Built in 1880 concurrently with M.N.Ry. No.3 Thornhill and just one works number apart, this locomotive has the dubious honour of being the first locomotive to have been withdrawn from service, as early as 1947 which accounts for the lack of photographs of her.  

Notably, it was the first to have the sandboxes positioned ahead of the water tanks in their now familiar spot; therefore as a result, the shape of the feedwater pipe was changed from the original end to an “S” shape entering the boiler between the smokebox and first cladding ring, rather than between the first and second cladding rings.  The locomotive was involved in a collision with No.10 G.H. Wood in 1928 and the frames were badly buckled at this time; owing to the large amount of work required to repair this, it was not selected for any further attention when withdrawn in 1947 and dismantled. 

The frames were stored on a siding at Douglas Station for many years, with the tanks and cab being stored separately and scrapped in 1974.  When the railway was nationalised in 1978, the remaining frames were purchased by what is now the now-defunct Isle of Man Railway Society and stored in the open air at Santon, Ballasalla and later Castletown where they remained for several years before being taken off-site and later returning to the goods platform at Port St. Mary Station.   

The remains include the main frame, coal bunker, and rear buffer beam, cylinders and cladding but the have deteriorated over years of open storage.  In store off-site for a number of years, the frames were returned to public display on the goods platform at Castletown Station during November 2009.   Following the repatriation of other assets owned by the group, notably No.8 Fenella, frames were removed from the island in September 2012 and are now in storage at Weetings Farm in Suffolk, placed on uneven ground which will ensure further buckling of the frames in the mid to long term.  A sad end to a piece of history.