Closed Van G.8
This example was withdrawn in 1964 and scrapped at Ballasalla Station in 1974.
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G.8
1879
Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co.,Ltd.
6’ 6”
8’ 0”
8’ 11”
14’ 6”
Scrapped
G.8 was part of the batch of vans delivered from the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd. of Saltley in Birmingham and was largely identical to the recently-restored van G.1 which remains the sole representative of this early series of closed vans on the railway today..
(Photo: I.o.M.S.R.S.A.)
October 1967