page_title: Isle of Man Railway rolling stock
section_title: The Foxdale Coach
hierarchical_section_title: Isle of Man Railway rolling stock / The Foxdale Coach
caption_attribution_description: English: Manx Northern Railway Brake-composite coach The Manx Northern Railway ran from the junction at St. Johns to Ramsey via Kirk Michael, and also the Foxdale branch from St. Johns. All of this closed years ago, and not many of this railway's vehicles have survived, but this brake-composite, No. 15, has been restored and was seen just outside Douglas station
context_page_description: The rolling stock used on the Isle of Man Railway today is entirely original but the serviceable passenger coaches number 14, out of an original total of 75 carriages. The railway was provided with a variety of stock from different manufacturers over its time, and types of coach were categorised according to a lettering system, with the original four-wheeled coaches being of A, B, C and D types, and so on. The types of stock can be summarised as follows:-
context_section_description: Yet another oddity is this carriage, this time originating from the Foxdale Railway. It was built by the Oldbury Railway Carriage and Wagon Co in 1886 for the small branch to Foxdale; this is a true survivor of the system and is still in operation today. It is the smallest bogie carriage on the system being only 30' 0" long, and rides on plate frame bogies.  As constructed it had four third class compartments and a small luggage and guard's compartment complete with lookout duckets, which took up a little over a third of the length of the vehicle.  One of the compartments was converted into a first class section, which led to the carriage acquiring the nickname Kitto's Coach after the Captain of the Foxdale Mines who had a first class free pass on the Manx Northern.  It was converted into a camping coach in 1967 and painted into a non-typical blue and yellow livery. In 1979 to mark the occasion of the centenary of the Manx Northern Railway, it was painted into original livery and re-numbered No. 15 for a spell, before reverting to fleet livery of purple lake and regaining the fleet number F.39.  She carried the red and cream livery from 1999 until 2013 when the coach was repainted into the Manx Northern Railway livery and renumbered M.N.Ry. No. 17.  The first class compartment was also reinstated at this time reducing the seating capacity by two seats as armrests were provided.
caption: Douglas Station, 1979
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