Carriage 5
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| Carriage 5 | |
| Built By | Brown, Marshall & Co Adderley Park, Birmingham |
| Seating | Knifeboard 2 X 7 x 3rd |
| Length | 10ft 3ins |
| Body Width | 6ft 8ins |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Date Built | 1863-4 |
| 1958 | Restored to service |
| Operating | Heritage Fleet |
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[edit] Background
Built Brown, Marshall & Co, Birmingham this is one of the first narrow gauge passenger carrying vehicles in the World, along with Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 12.
Carried Cherry Red livery from late sixties but withdrawn about that time. It was taken to Llanbedr for rebuild by Ron Jarvis in his workshop. It incorporates a steel section through the vehicle and can be braked, though no 5 does not have brakes fitted. At this time Ron had 4 steel sections (5, 2, 1 and Port Hole Bug box) made and enough machined timber sections for at least 4 vehicles (used on 5, 2, 3 and 4 and some bits on No 1).
Recently repainted into the Victorian livery for use in The 1870's Train, for some time it carried the Royal Purple livery in the nineties
Carriage 5
