Drop-Side Wagons M.61 - M.66
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The penultimate batch of six wagons from the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd. from 1925. Both M.61 and M.66 (together with M.71) had their bodies removed to create the oil train in 1968 and were thereafter scrapped entirely.
Scrapping Dates
M.61 - 1974 (Oil Tanks)
M.62 - 1974 Ballasalla
M.63 - 19**
M.64 - 19**
M.65 - 19**
M.66 - 1974 (Oil Tanks)
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M.61 - M.66
Metropolitan
1925
14’ 6”
6’ 6”
4’ 8”
8’ 0”
Scrapped
Nil
M.62 lettering detail on lower plank at Peel Station in June of 1959.
M.66 with sides removed and oil tank fitted, Ramsey Station 1968.
M.64 with one of the closed vans at Douglas Station in October of 1967.
M.65 fully laden in the goods yard at Ramsey Station, date unknown.
M.62 in the yard at Douglas Station in 1947 with lettering on lower plank.
M.61 at Peel Station in 1971 as part of the final stock movement west with No.4 Loch.
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