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| Fleet No.: |
M.N.R. No. 8 |
| Builders: |
Swansea Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd |
| Layout: |
3rd 3rd / 3rd 3rd / 3rd 3rd |
| Year Built: |
1879 |
| Capacity: |
32 |
| Current Status: |
Scrapped |
| A heavy shunt at Douglas Station on 20th July 1905 in which the frames of this coach were badly damaged ensured its withdrawal from service. An early example of the Railway Company's policy of never throwing out something that could be useful elsewhere, this coach body was removed from its underframes (which were scrapped) shortly afterwards and it became the station oil store at Ramsey Station where it lived out its days. It is not known when it eventually succumbed but it is understood that by the time that Ian McNab was researching his book, the first history of the railway published in 1945, the body was no longer in situ at the northern terminus. |
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The Cleminsons 
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