The “F” Series : “Pairs” Carriages
The early four-wheeled carriages delivered to the railway for its opening in 1873 with a further batch the following year when the south line opened, were the only carriages on the railway until the delivery of the first bogie carriages in 1881; the original stock was quickly close-coupled so that two carriages ran as one unit for ease of shunting and coupling. Beginning in 1909 a scheme was commenced to mount these onto new bogie underframes supplied by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., of Saltley in Birmingham and this would continue until the final carriages were to treated in 1926; thereafter the series were allocated numbering in the “F” series and were used at peak times, a rake being largely dedicated for schools traffic latterly. There follows a list of each of these carriages and be clicking on the link to the left you can view details of each individual vehicle in the series:-
April 2022, Port Soderick Station
F.66, July 1969, Port Erin Station
F.72, May 1966, St. John’s Station
F.63, April 2022, Port Erin Station
F.69, May 1966, Douglas Station
F.71, April 1980, Douglas Station
F.70, July 1933, Douglas Station
F.75, August 2018, Railway Museum