ON THE GOODS PLATFORM AT CASTLETOWN IN 1990

Built: 1880

Builders: Beyer, Peacock & Co., Ltd., Gorton Foundry, Manchester

Works No.: 2038

Name:Tynwald (Manx Name, Island’s Government)

Wheel Arr.:2-4-0T

Weight:17t, 12 cwt

Current Status: In Storage

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Built in 1880, simultaneously with the Manx Northern Railway’s No. 3 by Beyer, Peacock, this locomotive has the dubious honour of being the first locomotive to have been withdrawn from service, as early as 1947.This accounts for the lack of photographs of her in existence today. Legend has it that one of the original nameplates resides in the Manx Parliament buildings but it has never been established whether this is an original or replica plate.

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The locomotive was stripped down and the frames were placed onto a siding at Douglas station for many years. When nationalisation (and therefore rationalisation) was in the air in the late 1970s, the remaining frames were purchased by a preservationist group to save them from the scrap man and stored in the open air at Santon and later Castletown on the former goods platform. As late as September 1978 it was reported that the frames were "likely to be scrapped very soon". Very little remains of them, other than the main frame, coal bunker, cylinders and buffer beams but they have however survived over the course of three centuries and they are an integral part of the railway's history.

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During the administration of David Howard the locomotive's frames were removed from the railway and stored off-site, at the old Homefield Garage located in Upper Douglas.  In November 2009 the locomotive, consisting of the main frame, coal bunker, back wooden buffer and piston casing, was returned to the goods platform at Castletown Station for display purposes in a non-standard green livery applied during 1986.