None of the existing pairs coaches carry numbers relating to their original four-wheel configuration, though initially the numbers were painted on the end panel (adjacent to where the vacuum stand pipe appears on this photograph of F.74)

The rolling stock on the railway was identified by an alphanumerical system, with the original four-wheel coaches being denoted as types "A" - First Class; "B" - Second (later Third) Class; "C" - Second (later Third) Class with brake; "D" - First / Second (later Third) Class Composite; and "E" - Brake/Luggage Vans. The single Saloon coach was included within type "A" as A.12. The 26 bogie coaches created from the original four-wheelers, "the Pairs" as they became known, were eventually allocated the "F" prefix (given to bogie coaches) with numbers in sequence F.50 to F.75. These are all detailed under the Bogie Coaches section of this website.t a board meeting on 19th June 1873 the Isle of Man Railway agreed to re-designate all 3rd Class accommodation to 2nd Class and all vehicles were re-classed before shipment to the Island).  While the Railway Company felt that four-wheeled stock would be suitable, it was after only two years, on 12th January 1875 that tenders were invited for the first bogie stock.  The first of these vehicles arrived in 1876 and was followed by further deliveries until in 1909 it was decided to order new bogie chassis for the four-wheeled stock and mount two bodies on each chassis.

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C.1 was paired off with B.19 (also a second class coach) in 1912 and became F.64.  At this stage it would have been painted with chocolate brown lower panels and cream upper panels.  Sometime after 1968 it would have received the then standard red lower panels with off-white upper panels.  The vehicle was used regularly until 6th August 1978 when, while at Port Erin, the Douglas end of the coach was badly damaged by fire.  The vehicle was dismantled, the chassis swapped with F.66, and entered service as a runner, the undamaged body of C.1 was moved into store and the remains of B.19 broken up.  The body of C.1 remained in the old carriage shed at Douglas Station until it was evicted in early 1999 and the old shed demolished.  Surplus to requirement and unlikely to be in line for restoration it was feared that C.1 would be broken up but it was offered a new home by Peel Heritage Trust as part of their railway display, and restoration is now underway.  The coach will be finished in the plain chocolate livery with yellow lining, the condition in which it probably visited Peel on opening day in 1873.