Four-Wheel Carriage B.4

Built for the opening of the Peel Line in 1873 and supplied by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham, this carriage was close-coupled with B.17 from 1882 and in 1923 mounted permanently on a new bogie underframe from the same supplier to become “pair” F.69; the timber underframe was then used to create K.23; the bodies were scrapped at Castletown Station in 1969 and the frames became R.9

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B.4 (Later Paired With B.17) Thence F.69)

30 (Five Passengers Per Bench)

1873 (Paired 1923)

7’ 0”

Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd.

17’ 0”

During the 1966 closure outside the carriage shed at Douglas Station.

F.69 in use as part of the schools train at Peel Station in 1952, utility brown.

The carriage bodies shortly before destruction at Castletown Station.

The carriage bodies shortly before destruction at Castletown Station.

The carriage bodies shortly before destruction at Castletown Station.

B.4 end in 1966 closure outside the carriage shed at Douglas Station.