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F.66 was the last of the pairs coaches to remain in traffic and lived to carry a unique variation on the standard purple lake livery adapted in 1990. It was withdrawn in 1996 and was stored in the old bus depot at Homefield when this image was taken, later returning to home metals for outdoor storage at Port St. Mary Station.
Several of the original 1873 and 1874 bodies (including those from A.1 and B.1 and the saloon A.12) remain extant on the railway today, mounted in their pairs on steel bogie underframes as F.62, F.63, F.66, F.67, F.74 and F.75, but none are in current service. F.75 is on display in the railway museum at Port Erin. F.54 which is in service had a completely new body built by the railway workshops between 1993 and 1998, so does not consist of the original bodies from A.7 and C.10 which were disposed of in 1972. None of the original four-wheel coach chassis remain in existence, the closest in design being the chassis from van G.19 which originated from 1874 Luggage / Brake Van E.3.
. The body of Carriage C.1 shown in the photograph is the original from 1873 and currently on display at the site of the former railway station in Peel. It is being restored by the Peel Heritage Trust. Some surplus-to-requirement four-wheel coach bodies were passed to private individuals in the 1970's and are believed to remain in existence on the island. It is hoped in the fullness of time that one or more representative examples of the original four-wheel coaches will be restored from original bodies on new chassis for use on the railway.
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