Four-Wheel Carriage B.21

Part of the first series and supplied by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham for the 1873 opening of the Peel Line, from 1881 this carriage was close-coupled to A.5 and in 1926 the two were mounted on a new bogie underframe to become “pair” F.55; the timber frames were then used to construct K.20 and bodies scrapped in 1968, became R.3.

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B.21 (Later Paired With A.5) Thence F.55)

30 (Five Passengers Per Bench)

1873 (Paired 1926)

7’ 0”

Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd.

17’ 0”

The remains of B.21 at St. John’s Station in the summer of 1968.

The remains of B.21 at St. John’s Station in the summer of 1968.