The second 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 1876 the original four-wheelers fell out of favour for their rougher riding. They were outshopped in the standard purple lake and off-white.

And so, this carriage was close-coupled around 1881 with C.2 and later mounted onto a bogie underframe in 1912 to become “pairs” carriage F.52, latterly relegated to school train duties; the nderframes were then re-used and became Fish Wagon No.4; the bodies from the carriage were removed in 1967 and later destroyed at St. John’s Station, the runner then seeing use as R.4.