Purchased for the opening of the Manx Northern Railway on 23rd September 1879 from the Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co.  This carriage had a guards’ compartment added early in its career in 1881 only two years after delivery, as was also carried out to several other such six-wheelers.

It was rare for the six-wheelers to venture from the North Line owing to the radius of curves elsewhere and passenger use was relatively short-lived, when it was damaged in an accident on 20th July 1905 when struck by an incoming train at Douglas Station its fate was sealed.

It was shortly thereafter officially removed from the railway passenger stock list but survived for some time as an oil store at Ramsey Station. No photographic evidence has been found of this usage.  It was one of two to have a small window added to the bulkhead to improve visibility for the guards.

The accompanying rendering is entirely conjectural and an imagined colour scheme, the original scheme having been polished teak as seen today on restored sister M.N.Ry. No.6 in the Railway Museum, changed to a variation on purple lake and off-white when the teak proved to not weather well.