Brake Composite F.3

Third bogie carriage on the railway, one of an order of six from Brown, Marshall & Co., Ltd., of Birmingham from 1876 and surviving in traffic until the latter days, in service until the 1971 season after which is was moved to St. John’s Station for storage the following winter.  Having retained its wooden brake blocks is was not favoured and surplus to operational requirements following the closure of the Peel and Ramsey lines.  It was sold in 1975 to the Welsh Highland Railway with F.21 and later scrapped (for further details please click here).

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F.3

1876

Brown, Marshall

35’ 0” 

7’ 0” 

9’ 4” 

40

Scrapped

F.3 prior to scrapping at Porthmadoc on the Ffestiniog Railway; it was the oldest surviving carriage at this time.a

F.3 prior to scrapping together with F.21 which has since been repatriated to the railway.

F.3 prior to scrapping at Porthmadoc on the Ffestiniog Railway; it was the oldest surviving carriage at this time.a