Purchased for the opening of the Manx Northern Railway on 23rd September 1879 from the Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co.  The original composite-construction wheels were often cited as the reason for collapse on the six-wheelers and it was a failure of this nature that occurred between Union Mills Station and Crosby Station on 4th October 1904 to the extent that the vehicle was withdrawn at the end of that year.  It was then re-used as the bothy at Douglas Station, removed from its underframes (which survived for many years beside the carriage shed); it never being allocated a new fleet number, it is here it remained until 1964 when it was scrapped being in poor condition, and replaced by N.42 which remains on its plinth today, very much an integral part of the look of the yard.