Two four-wheel carriages mounted on a new underframe supplied by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham in 1919, F.53 was latterly restricted to use on the schools trains and with withdrawn in 1964 being surplus to requirements.  The bodies were removed from the underframes in 1968 and renumbered as R.1, in this form they were sold to the Ffestiniog Railway in 1974 and departed the island.

This is one of few items of rolling stock for which there is a poor photographic record, if you have access to any images that you would be happy for us to use on this side to complete the page please get in touch with the website administrator who would be delighted to hear from you.  The accompanying drawings on this page are of similar carriages for illustrative purposes only.