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| Fleet No.: |
F.7 |
| Builders: |
Ashbury Carriage & Co., Ltd |
| Original Layout: |
G / 3 / 1 / 1 / 3 3 |
| Later Layout: |
Never Changed |
| Year Built: |
1881 |
| Capacity: |
40 (Not Including Guards') |
| Length: |
35' 0" |
| Width: |
7' 0" |
| Height: |
9' 4" (Roof - Rail) |
| Status: |
Scrapped |
| Purchased as part of an experiment by the company to use different manufacturers following the purchase of the initial batch of six coaches from Brown Marshalls & Co., this coach arrived on the island in 1881 from the Ashbury Carriage & Wagon Co., and although from a different source, its appearance was largely identical to the original batch and it retained it's original configuration. In use intermittantly until 1974, it was moved for storage to St. John's where its fate was sealed in the fire of 10th December 1975. Being a wooden bodied and framed coach it was lost entirely. Our view shows the coach on a train hauled by locomotive No. 10 G.H. Wood in the summer of 1968 at Union Mills, and clearly depicts the difference in height between the early bogie stock when compared with the following coach, showing why they became known as "Little Fs". |
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Bogie Coaches 
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