Brake Composite F.4
The first 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 ultimately moved to St. John’s Station for storage that 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 lost in the shed fire at St. John’s Station on 10th December 1975.
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F.4
1876
Brown, Marshall
35’ 0”
7’ 0”
9’ 4”
48
Scrapped
F.4 at Peel Station in original livery c.1900 with class designations on the compartment doors and off-white upper panelling.
Lettering detail and close-up of the oil lamp housing mounted on the roof with the original Peel Station as a backdrop.
The intricate lettering detail on the doors, this has been replicated in recent times on the restored “pair” F.68.