Four-Wheel Carriage C.10

One of the first batch delivered for the opening of the Peel Line in 1873 and later close-coupled in 1882 with A.7, this new carriage was numbered “pair” F.54; both the carriage and the bogie underframe on which it was mounted were supplied by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham, the carriage was withdrawn and bodies scrapped in 1983; a new replica was constructed 1993-1999 in-house and this carriage remains in service today.

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C.10 (“Paired” With A.7) Thence F.54

30 (Five Passengers Per Bench)

1873 (“Paired” 1923)

7’ 0”

Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd.

17’ 0”

The replica F.54 at Port Soderick Station in April 2022.

The original F.54 at Douglas Station in March of 1982 awaiting its fate.

The original F.54 at Douglas Station in regular traffic, dated June 1963.