Four-Wheel Carriage B.9

Ninth of the series and supplied by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham for the 1873 opening of the Peel Line, from 1882 this carriage was close-coupled to B.14 and in 1922 the two were mounted on a new bogie underframe to become F.70; the bodies were scrapped in 1979 and the underframes later converted to a ballast hopper in which form they remain today.

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B.9 (Later Paired With B.14) Thence F.70)

30 (Five Passengers Per Bench)

1873 (Paired 1922)

7’ 0”

Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd.

17’ 0”