Four-Wheel Carriage C.14

The final member of the series and delivered from the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham for the 1873 opening of the Peel Line, this four-wheeler was close-coupled with B.2 from 1882 and in 1922 the two were mounted on a new bogie underframe from the same supplied to become “pair” F.67.  As the pairs carriage this survived in traffic until 1987 and is presently stored off-site away from the railway at Jurby Airfield.

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C.14 (“Paired” With B.2) Thence F.67

30 (Five Passengers Per Bench)

1873 (“Paired” 1922)

7’ 0”

Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd.

17’ 0”

F.67 whilst still in traffic, stored at Douglas Station in August 1969.

F.67 being lifted from Port St. Mary Station for storage at Jurby Airfield.

F.67 in the schools livery with large class lettering at Douglas Station in 1950.