One of the first four-wheel carriages built for the opening of the Peel Line in 1873 by the Metropolitan Carriage &Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley in Birmingham, upon delivery of the first bogie carriages from Brown, Marshall & Co., Ltd., in 1874 this carriage was close-coupled with A.3 and later mounted onto a bogie underframe in 1926 to become F.72;  both this carriage and D.2 were distinguishable by the door vents above the droplights, the central one being of a different design to the outer two for the first class compartment; in this form the carriage was withdrawn in 1974 and stored; the bodies were later scrapped in 1983 with the underframe remaining on the railway today as a bogie runner.