Home Brake Vans

These four-wheeled vans were used to provide both parcels and luggage space as well as accomodation for the guard and/or brakesman prior to the arrival of the first The accompanying image, courtesy of the Duchess Collection, shows one of these vans in original condition at Castletown Station with No. 2 Derby running wrong road towards Douglas Station.

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Owing to their relatively short working lives photographic images of these vans are comparatively rare but we have included images with each of our article where possible and will continue to add these as they are discovered.  Please click on one of the articles below to learn more about one of the vehicles.

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1 General Information
2 E.1 i (Metropolitan, 1873)
3 E.1 ii (Metropolitan, 1894)
4 E.2 (Metropolitan, 1873)
5 E.3 (Metropolitan, 1874)
6 E.4 (Metropolitan, 1874)
7 E.5 (Metropolitan, 1874)
8 E.6 (Metropolitan, 1876)
9 E.7 (Isle of Man Railway, 1895)
10 E.9 (Manx Northern Railway, 1895)
11 E.8 (Manx Northern Railway, 1895)
12 E.10 (Swansea Carriage & Wagon, 1879)
13 M.N.R. No. 15 (Swansea Carriage & Wagon, 1879)