Closed Van G.18
Built on the frames of redundant bolster wagon L.6 and surviving in use until 1965, it was scrapped during the 1974 mass cull of redundant rolling stock that became known as the Ballasalla Bonfire
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G.18
1918
Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd.
7’ 0”
8’ 0”
8’ 11”
14’ 6”
Scrapped
G.18 was another van built in-house by the Railway Company utilising the frames of bolster wagon L.6.
(Photo: I.o.M.S.R.S.A.)
July 1969 and G.18 was outside the carriage shed at Douglas Station having been withdrawn some years previously, awaiting its fate.
On the goods siding at Castletown Station in September 1965 in its last days of service; the diagonal planking is a feature of these vans.
August 1963 and G.18 was in use as tailstock on the rear of a typical mixed train, seen here departing Castletown Station