Four-Wheel Carriage A.8

One of the first four-wheel carriages built for the opening of the Peel Line in 1873 by the Metropolitan Carriage &Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley in Birmingham, upon delivery of the first bogie carriages from Brown, Marshall & Co., Ltd., in 1874 this carriage was close-coupled with C.8 and later mounted onto a bogie underframe in 1924 to become pair F.58; surviving out of service from 1965, the carriage was scrapped at St. Johns Station in 1968 and the underframe re-used as a runner.

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A.8

With C.8 (F.58)

30

1873 

1924

7’ 0”

Metropolitan

17’ 6

F.58 showing A.8 after removal from frames at St. John’s Station  in July 1968