Half-Brake Carriage F.44
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The last of the 1908 batch of half-brakes delivered from the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley Works, Birmingham and surviving in regular traffic until the Lord Ailsa era, this carriage was surplus to requirements by the time of nationalisation in 1978 and withdrawn; it survived until 1983 when the body was scrapped with the underframe retained as a bogie runner. It fulfilled this role until 2011 when the frames too were scrapped.
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F.44
1908
Metropolitan
24
37’ 0”
7’ 0”
10’ 0”
Scrapped
1983
July 1962 and F.44 stands on Road One at Douglas Station following a repaint into the red and cream livery of the times.
Sister carriage F.43 at Douglas Station in August 1969 showing the similar appearance of these carriages.
In September 1959 F.44 on the rear of a train departing Douglas Station, the central position of the lettering was standard.
Fleet lettering detail in gold with two-tone green drop shadow seen after repainting in July 1962 on Road One at Douglas Station.
Still in regular use in June 1969 seen at Douglas Station on the rear of a south line train; today F.49 of the type remains in traffic.
Bulkhead end showing the brake ducket whilst at Peel Station in June of 1968 still in regular passenger traffic.
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