Fleet No.: W.W.1 (Carried Latterly)

Built: Isle Of Man Railway Company

Year: 1936

Scrapped:        1998

Status:               Parts Used, Well Wagon No.2

This wagon was constructed by the Railway Company in-house and was much used, notably to transport locomotive boilers whilst major attention was carried out.  It saw service until the spring of 1998 at which time it was stripped of its re-useable components which were re-used on a replacement vehicle and the time-exipred parts scrapped.  It was last used in conjunction with demonstration freight trains during the heady days of the railway events of 1996.  It was of mixed wood and steel construction.  The main members were channel section steel and were lengthened by Sir Philip Wombwell during his tenure to carry a small container in 1968 and this was its final state.  The lengthened well was (within a couple of inches) long enough to carry the underframe of Quarry Hunslet locomotive Margaret which was stored in the workshops during a period when it was owned by a local preservationist.  Latterly the vehicle carried a red lead colour with its year of construction hand painted on the frames.  Whilst its component framework was of timber construction the replacement is all steel.  Our view shows the wagon at the rear of the old carriage shed at Douglas Station where a myraid of stock could one be found.  Also in the view is an H-class three-plank wagon.