1908 News
1908 News
No.12 Hutchinson was delivered this year as a one-off order from Beyer, Peacock & Co., of Gorton Foundry in Manchester, the third to receive a name in honour of a Railway Company director, it would be followed by another two years later.
No.2 Derby spent the year in the workshops undergoing a major overhaul and would not re-enter traffic until the following year.
No.8 Fenella recieved an overhauled boiler which had originally been provided for No.5 Mona in 1895, it was common to swap boilers in this manner to keep the fleet operational.
Half-brake carriages F.43 and F.44 were delivered from the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., of Saltley Works in Birmingham, the second batch of this type following F.33 and F.34 three years earlier.
Cattle vans K.10, K.11 and K.12 entered traffic this year, being constructed in-house re-using the frames of three drop-side ballast wagons which had been inherited from the Manx Northern Railway upon the merger of 1905; they had originally been the property of the Isle of Man Mining Co., and passed to the north line thereafter.