Purchased for the opening of the Manx Northern Railway on 23rd September 1879 from the Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co., and operating almost exclusively on the North Line throughout its early careeer, being an all-thirds composite.

Later updated to include guards' accommodation, this was one of few six-wheelers that remained in use into the 1940s and, as James I.C. Boyd noted in his 1962 volume it was used “in case of special need, the 1950s...for instance on Tynwald Day in 1950”. One of the final six-wheelers to therefore see use/

Likely to have been the last of the six-wheelers to see active service, it was noted as being in derelict condition by 1968 and lost in the shed fire at St. John’s Station on 10th December 1975, being destroyed by controlled fire the following June.

The half-height partitions on this particular example remained undivided, retaining its original configuration of three double third class compartments with open backs until the end, notes taken by Douglas Robinson in 1966 reveal that the configuration had remained unaltered.