Purchased for the opening of the Manx Northern Railway on 23rd September 1879 from the Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co., as one of series of fourteen used to operate the new line exclusively in its first few years of service.  Accommodation was provided in six equally-space third class compartments.

This example was fitted with electric lights, one of the few six-wheelers to be so treated; retaining the original layout of three double first class compartments until the end of its career, seeing use only on peak days after the merger such as market days or the annual open air ceremony for Tynwald Day.

By the 1940s it was noted as being out of use but in servicable condition, and stored in the carriage shed at Ramsey Station with others of the series, last being used in 1944; by 1955 this space was rented out and the carriages were relocated to St. John’s Station for storage in the open air.

They then resided on the specially laid Harry Cubbon’s Wing beside the carriage shed; this carriage was however moved to Douglas Station but was to succumb slightly earlier than the others, being scrapped on site in 1972, others being victims of the shed fire at St. John’s Station on 10th December 1975.