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
Operating	Heritage Fleet
Carriages

Contents 1 Background 2 See also

[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Carried Cherry Red livery from late sixties but withdrawn about that time.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

[edit]See also

• Bug Boxes
• Carriages
• Carriages (Pre Preservation)
• The Talking Train