The first of the first batch of four-wheel carriages built for the opening of the Peel Line in 1873 supplied by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley in Birmingham, upon delivery of the first bogie carriages from Brown, Marshall & Co., Ltd., in 1876 the four-wheelers gradually fell out of favour to this superior riding stock.

And so in around 1881 it was close-coupled with B.1 and later mounted onto a bogie underframe in 1926 to become “pairs” carriage F.62; in this formation it survived as a pairs carriage in traffic until 1987; the pair was restored and returned to traffic in 2023 and is now an active part of the service fleet together with similarly treated F.63.