Bogie Runner R.1
This set of underframes was stripped of its carriage bodies in 1967 with the carriage F.53 (consisting of four-wheelers A.5 and B.21) being discarded in the yard at St. John’s Station and the frame used for container carriage. After this useage ceased the frames were sold in 1974 to the Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales.
October 1967 at Castletown Station carrying an Isle of Man Ferry Express containers for which it was stripped.
Some bogie runner still survive in departmental use as here at Douglas Station in the summer 0f 2021.
Some of the series on Road One at Douglas Station in 1969 well loaded with shipping containers.