Home Brake Vans E.1 i (Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., 1873)

 

Fleet No.: E.1 (i)
Year Built: 1873
Builders:   Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., Birmingham
Length: 16' 0"
Height: 9' 6" (Rail - Roof)
Wheelbase: 9' 0"
Status: Scrapped

 

This vehicle was delivered for the opening of the Peel Line in 1873 and saw service until the arrival of the line's first bogie coaching stock; having been involved in a well-documented accident at St. John's Station in 1893 where it was struck by an unknown Manx Northern Railway locomotive, this vehicle was scrapped later that year and replaced as below.