M.N.Ry. No.4 (N.43)
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Purchased for the opening of the Manx Northern Railway on 23rd September 1879 from the Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co., and identical to sister No.3. Upon the 1905 merger it acquired the fleet number N.43 in a new sequence denoting northern stock.
This example later featuring a narrow window which was added in the end bulkhead shortly after the brake gear was fitted to provide the guard with more rear vision, a feature which was also applied to No.3, which the latter retains today.
The finish of the two first class compartments was similar to that provided in No.1 and No.2, while third class arrangements are quoted by James I.C. Boyd as “...puritanical (grained and scumbled)”. This was a common application internally.
The first class compartments featured the curved upper window frames in common with the first two carriages of the class; it was damaged during the shed fire at St. John’s Station on 10th December 1975 and destroyed by controlled fire in June 1976.
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No.4
N.43
6’ 9”
30’ 0”
2’ 3”
The ravages of outside storage for over a decade taking their toll, photograph courtesy of Michael Bishop, May 1966 still showing traces of utility brown colour scheme.
As part of a rake of abandoned six-wheelers stored on the Foxdale Line spur in April 1955 while the wing was being laid behind the carriage shed.
To the rear of the carriage shed at St. John’s Station, the elements ravaged the teak panelling latterly, its final resting place, 1956 by Douglas Hartley.
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