The “E” Series : Brake Vans 

These four-wheel brake vans similar to the passenger carriages but with no accommodation for anyone but the guard and/or brakeman and lookout duckets for ease of visibility, this detail on the Manx Northern Railway stock varied in design, details of which can be found in the individual pages below; early plans were to have these capable of carrying third class passengers and drawing exist illustrating this with a second set of double doors and bench seating with addition windows but this was never carried through and all examples remained for staff use only.  Upon delivery of the first bogie carriages with guards' compartments in 1876 they gradually became obsolete and found a variety of other uses, bodies being reused as grounded stores and underframes being converted into a number of other uses, click the links:-

Brake Van E.1 (i)

1873 - Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.


Brake Van E.1 (ii)

1893 - Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.


Brake Van E.2

1873 - Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.


Brake Van E.3

1873 - Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.


Brake Van E.4

1874 - Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.


Brake Van E.5

1876 - Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.


Brake Van E.6

1876 - Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.


Brake Van E.7

1895 -Isle Of Man Railway Co., Ltd.


Brake Van Er.8 (M.N.Ry. No.18)

1895 - Manx Northern Railway Co., Ltd.


Brake Van Er.9 (M.N.Ry. No.19)

1879 - Manx Northern Railway  Co., Ltd.


Brake Van Er.10 (M.N.Ry. No.16)

1879 - Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.


M.N.Ry. Van No.15

1879 - Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.