Built for the opening of the Peel Line in 1873 by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., at their works in Saltley, Birmingham, this carriage was close-coupled with A.8 in 1882 and became “pair” F.58, surviving in traffic until the latter days as part of schools trains in all-over red livery. 

It was unusual in having long narrow bulkhead windows which it retained from the earliest days when it had a guards compartment.  It was removed from the underframes and scrapped in 1968.