Home Passenger Stock F.5 (Brown Marshalls Guards' Composite, 1876)
Rolling Stock

 

Fleet No.:                F.5

Configuration:      G / 3 / 1 / 1 / 3 3

Makers:                   Brown, Marshalls & Co., Ltd.

Year:                       1876

Status:                    Scrapped

The third class compartments denoted above were originally second class but the Railway Company abandoned this class and it was later changed, although the onl change was the lettering on the compartment doors.   This coach was distinct from the others in the first batch of bogie coaches, as she was involved in an accident at Union Mills and was subsequently repaired at the non-Douglas end (guards') bulkhead; this was distinct owing to the use of tongue and groove boarding as opposed to the more traditional panelling and the coach is easily identifiable in photographs for this reason.  Although not destroyed in the large shed first at St. John's the previous year, she was deemed beyond economic repair and scrapped on site in the summer of 1976 by the scrap men contracted to lift the rails and remove the railway.