Four-Wheel Carriage B.17

Built by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham for the 1873 opening of the Peel Line, from 1881 this carriage was close-coupled to B.4 and in 1923 the two were mounted on a new bogie underframe to become F.69; the bodies were scrapped in 1969 at Castletown Station and the underframes from the original four-wheeler used to construct K.24; the underframes became R.9.

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B.17 (Later Paired With B.4) Thence F.69)

30 (Five Passengers Per Bench)

1873 (Paired 1923)

7’ 0”

Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd.

17’ 0”