C.1

Four-Wheel Carriage C.1

First of the series and delivered for the opening of the Peel Line in 1873 from the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham, this carriage was close coupled with B.19 from 1881 and placed on a new underframe from the same supplier to become “pair” F.64 in 1912.

The underframe from this survives as a bogier runner today. The other portion has long since been scrapped but C.1 remains on the Peel Station site, fully repainted for its 150th anniversary in 2023. As with others of the series the guards compartment has a narrower doorway.

Fleet No.:

“Paired”:

Capacity:

Built:

“Pair” Date:

Width:

Manufacturers:

Length:

C.1

B.19 (F.64)

1873

1912

7’ 0”

Metropolitan

17’ 0”

Surviving on display at Peel Station C.1 carried its original fleet number and purple lake livery in 2012.

The interior of a compartment of C.1, plinthed beside the water tower on the site of Peel Station in 2012.

Lettering details on the on display at Peel Station in purple lake and white in 2012 with gold and blue letters.

F.64 remains extant as a runner, seen in the running shed at Douglas Station in August of 2022.

Surviving on display plinthed at Peel Station and carrying its original second class seen in July 2012.

Surviving runner F.64 outside the workshops at Douglas Station with No.11 Maitland in March of 2022.

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