Brake Composite F.17
Part of a batch of six carriages delivered from Brown, Marshalls & Co., Ltd., in 1894 this brake composite carriage was stored latterly in the carriage shed when vehicles still retaining wooden brake block were withdrawn; it was lost in the carriage shed fire at St. John’s Station on 10th December 1975.
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F.17
1894
Brown, Marshall
35’ 0”
7’ 0”
9’ 4”
40
Scrapped
F.17 in July of 1960 on Road One at Douglas Station, showing the guards’ compartment to good effect.
As part of a rake on Road One at Douglas Station, F.11 is to the left and one of the “pairs” is to the right.
Internal memorandum from September 1932 detailing damage sustained to F.17 from the Association archives.