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ONE OF THE SURVIVING SIX-WHEELERS, N.42 (M. N. Rly. No. 3)
Supplied by the Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co., to the fledgling Manx Northern Railway Company for the opening of their line from Ramsey to St. John's on 23rd September 1879, these unusual six-wheeled coaches operating on the Cleminson system were inherited by the Railway Company in 1905 when the Manx Northern was amalgamated; they later took "N" class numbers to differentiate them from the bogie stock already purchased as well as to denote their northern origins, having originally been numbered sequentially (please refer to the individual articles below for original numbers).
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Whilst seeing extensive use by the Manx Northern Railway, their new owners only pressed them into service on very busy days, notably Tynwald Day when it wasn;t unheard of for passengers to be carried in open wagons. They fell out of use completely after the war and were stored latterly in the open air at St. John's Station in what became known as Harry Cubbon's Wing behind the carriage shed. Remarkably, even though their condition was extremely poor, some of these carriages survived into preservation, whilst others performed a variety of other duties before being scrapped, and we have endeavoured to include as much detail about each of these unusual vehicles as possible on the following pages. Please click on one of the carriages in the list below to find out more about each coach:-
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The Cleminsons
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