No. 1 Sutherland
Number 1 was built in 1873 by the Manchester based company Beyer Peacok & Co. Ltd.She was given the honour of hauling the first official train to Peel and remained in service, albeit as Douglas shunter only latterly, until 1964 when she was withdrawn and stored. She has returned to service for steam 125 in 1998 and since then has been withdrawn.
Origin of name: The Duke Of Sutherland, Company Director
Status: Withdrawn 2004 - In store
Origin of name: The Duke Of Sutherland, Company Director
Status: Withdrawn 2004 - In store
No. 2 Derby
Number 2 Derby was the second Locomotive built for the line in 1873 by Beyer Peacok & Co Ltd. She was withdrawn in 1949 and dismantled for use on the other small boiler locomotives. The remains of her were finally scrapped in 1980. The only surviving bits of her are the pony trucks but it is not known if they are hers or not because so many bits were interchanged on the locomotives.
Origin of name: The Earl Of Derby, Manx Historical Figure
Status: Withdrawn 1947, remains scrapped 1980.
Origin of name: The Earl Of Derby, Manx Historical Figure
Status: Withdrawn 1947, remains scrapped 1980.
No. 3 Pender
Number 3 Pender was the third and last locomotive to be brought during 1873 for the peel line and was built by Beyer Peacok & Co Ltd. she was involved in a accident in 1925 which involved the fireman being launched from the footplate and suffering fatal injuries. Pender was withdrawn in the 1950's and is now a resident at the Museum of science and industry in Manchester. A stones throw from her birthplace.
Origin of name : Sir John Pender, Company Director
Status: Withdrawn 1950's, Exhibit Museum of science and industry in Manchester.
Origin of name : Sir John Pender, Company Director
Status: Withdrawn 1950's, Exhibit Museum of science and industry in Manchester.
No. 4 Loch
Number 4 loch was purchased in 1874 for the opening of the Port Erin line. As originally built "Loch" was a small boilered locomotive, but when rebuilt in 1909 was given a medium sized boiler. No. 4 has the strange title of being what must surely be the first locomotive ever to (re)enter service on the day the line closed.
No. 4 is different from her shed mates by carrying a Legs Of Mann and "4" numeral on her buffer beam.
Origin of name : Henry Brougham Loch, Lieutenant Governor
Status : stored waiting for new boiler certificate.
No. 4 is different from her shed mates by carrying a Legs Of Mann and "4" numeral on her buffer beam.
Origin of name : Henry Brougham Loch, Lieutenant Governor
Status : stored waiting for new boiler certificate.
No. 5 Mona
Arriving at the same time as No. 4 in 1874 in readiness for the opening of the Port Erin line, the name "Mona" is named from the Latin name for the Isle of Man. She too was reboilered in 1911 as a medium boilered locomotive and was last reboilered in 1946. In 1970 she refused to hold a head of steam and was mothballed. she was sold to the Isle of Man Railways and Tramways Preservation Society in 1978 and remains in store today. Sadly she is not able to be viewed by the public due to blue asbestos.
Origin of name : Traditional Manx Name
Status : Withdrawn 1970, Stored - Privately owned (until 2012) Owned by railway 2012 onwards
Origin of name : Traditional Manx Name
Status : Withdrawn 1970, Stored - Privately owned (until 2012) Owned by railway 2012 onwards
No. 6 Peveril
A one-off purchase in 1875 Peveril saw extensive use on the Peel line. She was rebuilt with a medium sized boiler in 1907 and was given her last boiler in 1932. Peveril was withdrawn from service after being Douglas station shunter for a number of years in August of 1960 and stored out of use thereafter. In 1967 she was selected as
one of the static display locomotives during the Marquess of Ailsa years at St.John's station
and, after closure of the Peel and Ramsey lines in 1968 relocated to Douglas
Station for display purposes.
She had been restored in 1994 to be put on display in the museum and this is where she is today.
Origin of name : Sir Walter Scott Novel, “Peveril Of The Peak”
Status : On display - Port Erin museum
She had been restored in 1994 to be put on display in the museum and this is where she is today.
Origin of name : Sir Walter Scott Novel, “Peveril Of The Peak”
Status : On display - Port Erin museum
No. 7 Tynwald
Built in 1880 this locomotive has the dubious honour of being the first locomotive to have been withdrawn from service as early as 1947. The locomotive was involved in a collision with No. 10 G.H. Wood in 1928
and the frames were badly buckled at this time; owing to the large amount of
work required to repair this, she was not selected for any further attention
when withdrawn in 1947 and the locomotive dismantled.Stripped down, the frames were stored on a siding at Douglas Station for many years, with the tanks and cab being stored separately being scrapped in 1974.
Very little remains of them, other than the main frame, coal bunker, and buffer beams but they have however survived over the course of three decades and are an integral part of the railway's history
Origin of name : Manx Name, Island’s Government
Status : Dismanteled 1947
Very little remains of them, other than the main frame, coal bunker, and buffer beams but they have however survived over the course of three decades and are an integral part of the railway's history
Origin of name : Manx Name, Island’s Government
Status : Dismanteled 1947
No. 8 Fenella
Originating from 1894 and named after a character in a novel by Sir Walter Scott, popular at the time, this locomotive was for many years based on the Ramsey Line of the railway and indeed remained in service until the Marquess of Ailsa revival in 1967. She was purchased in 1978 by the Isle of Man Railways and Tramways Preservation Society. Happily, the owners offered the boiler of number 8 to donor locomotive No. 1
Sutherland so that she could return to service for the "Steam 125"
celebrations in 1998 and after an agreed three years in No. 1 the boiler was
lifted into No. 8 which operated as a member of the active fleet until early
summer 2008.
Origin of name : Walter Scott Novel
Status : Available for service
Origin of name : Walter Scott Novel
Status : Available for service
No. 9 Douglas
currently stored at the back of douglas carrige sheds in a make shift tent sealed of due to asbestos present on her and no 5 mona.
No. 10 G.H.Wood
The first of two 1905 purchases, and the first "medium boiler" locomotive, No. 10 is named after the railway's one-time company secretary and director George Henry Wood. She worked through the Marquess of Ailsa years to nationalisation
but was withdrawn in 1977 with defective boiler. At this time she was stored in Douglas works and it wasn't until 1992 when sister No. 13 was withdrawn that she was reconditioned and launched at Easter 1993 as part of the Year of Railways sporting a darker green livery and black/red lining. The locomotive is now running in the Spring Green livery applied in 2007 to
mark the fortieth anniversary of the takeover of the railway by Lord Ailsa.
Together with No. 12 they are the only service locos to not carry chimney
numerals.
Origin of name : George Henry Wood, Company Secretary, Later Manager
Status : In service
Origin of name : George Henry Wood, Company Secretary, Later Manager
Status : In service
No. 11 Maitland
The second of the 1905 locomotives was named after another company director Dalrymple Maitland and is fondly remembered by several generations of enthusiasts as the longest-serving fleet member. Having been re-boilered in 1959 this ensured her future well into the final years of company operation, through the Marquess of Ailsa years and into nationalisation.
In 1989 she was chosen to take part in The Ginger Tree, a television dramatisation being filmed on the railway and was painted into an un-lined matt black livery which she retained for the rest of that season before being returned to a variation on the Indian red livery. In 2007 she was again withdrawn, and has not seen service but is expected to be returned to active service at some point in the future. The locomotive sports a brass safety valve bonnet mounted on the boiler (the others being painted) but this was originally carried by No. 13 Kissack until 1971.
Origin of name : Dalrymple Maitland, Company Director
Status : In store - Awaiting rebuild
In 1989 she was chosen to take part in The Ginger Tree, a television dramatisation being filmed on the railway and was painted into an un-lined matt black livery which she retained for the rest of that season before being returned to a variation on the Indian red livery. In 2007 she was again withdrawn, and has not seen service but is expected to be returned to active service at some point in the future. The locomotive sports a brass safety valve bonnet mounted on the boiler (the others being painted) but this was originally carried by No. 13 Kissack until 1971.
Origin of name : Dalrymple Maitland, Company Director
Status : In store - Awaiting rebuild
No. 12 Hutchinson
The twelfth locomotive was a one-off order, similar in design to her two sisters purchased in 1905. Built in 1908 she was delivered to the railway with Salter safety valves and a deeper tone of whistle than had previously been employed. When the newly nationalised railway was in need of infrastructure refurbishment, No. 12 was the second loco to be fitted with a new Hunslet boiler. At this time she was given larger water tanks and a square "house" or cab supposedly similar to that carried by No. 16 Mannin. These features, together with a non-prototypical blue livery gave the loco a somewhat odd appearance when compared with her shed-mates, and the look was not widely liked. She did however remain in this guise until withdrawn from service for rebuild and re-entered traffic in 2001 in traditional form. Also of note is that she was one of only two engines (the other being No. 5) to carry a brass fleet number above the name plate on tank. This was lost prior to the 1981 rebuild and was reinstated for the 2009 season.
Origin of name: Company Director
Status : In service
Origin of name: Company Director
Status : In service
No. 13 Kissack
Another one-off order from 1910 (Beyer, Peacock works number 5382), unlucky 13 (latterly referred to as 12a by some of the railway's staff) was one of the backbones of the railway's fleet, having seldom been out of service until withdrawn with defective boiler at Christmas 1992; the boiler was refurbished and placed in the frames of No. 10 G.H.Wood which re-entered service as part of the "Year of Railways" in 1993 but No. 13 was left in dismantled form and stored. In 2001 it was announced that she would be the recipient of a new boiler and by the season of 2006 she was returned to steam. She carries the deeper whistle that she will be remembered for in the 1980s but the brass safety valve bonnet that originates from this locomotive is now carried by No. 11. No. 13 is a regular performer on the railway and part of the active fleet since returning to service in 2006 with a new boiler. When performing steam trials prior to this, the locomotive appeared with "12a" chalked on the back cab sheet, evidently by a superstitious member of workshop staff.
Origin of name : Thomas Kissack, Company Director
Status : in service.
Origin of name : Thomas Kissack, Company Director
Status : in service.
No. 14 Thornhill
Built for the Manx Northern Railway in 1880, this locomotive was originally numbered 3, becoming 14 upon the merger with the Isle of Man Railway in 1905 but not receiving its number and chimney numeral immediately. She was the only locomotive purchased by the Manx Northern to be built by Beyer Peacock & Co., in their Gorton Foundry in Manchester (works number 2028), and was similar in design to No. 7 Tynwald. Unique among the fleet in still being in almost "original" form, she retained her distinctive Salter safety valves until withdrawal from service in 1953 and after storage she was repainted and placed on display at St John's station during the 1967 and 1968 seasons, and later at Douglas station
Origin of name : Thornhill (Company Director’s Residence)
Status : Withdrawn 1953
Origin of name : Thornhill (Company Director’s Residence)
Status : Withdrawn 1953
No. 15 Caledonia
This unique locomotive dates from 1885 and is the only engine on the line to have been built by Dübs and Company, of Glasgow; purchased to tackle the steep gradients of the Foxdale Railway she was ideally suited to the job. After the merger in 1905 she was numbered 15 in the Isle of Man Railway fleet (having previously been Manx Northern's No. 4) and only saw sporadic use, most notably on Ramsey Cattle Mart specials and for snow clearing trains. She was reboiler in 1923, receiving the first boiler on the IMR to carry "Ross" pop safety valves.She has since been part of the stable of serviceable locomotives, having been painted into a non-prototypical blue livery in 1999 but reverted to the intricate original paint scheme in 2007. The locomotive last operated in 2009 and has since been the subject of a major rebuild and is expected to be serviceable for the 2012 season.
Origin of name : Caledonia (Scottish Origin)
Status : stored waiting for boiler to come back from uk
Origin of name : Caledonia (Scottish Origin)
Status : stored waiting for boiler to come back from uk
No. 16 Mannin
The last locomotive to be supplied to the railway and built in 1926, again by Beyer, Peacock & Co. (works number 6296), No. 16 was by far the most powerful 2-4-0T locomotive on the line. She was purchased to haul the heavy Port Erin boat train, a job which had previously taken two locomotives either double-headed or banked. Much larger than her older sisters, she was latterly used as Peel-based engine.
Never considered to be a candidate for restoration, she has only ventured out of the museum once (when it was being re-built in 1998/1999) and at this time she was treated to "lining out" of paintwork, the previous coat having never been lined. There were in fact two locomotives bearing this name, the other was a mock-up used in the annual Douglas Carnival parade but the fate of this loco appears to be lost in the mists of time.
Origin of name : Traditional Manx Word (Meaning Isle Of Man)
Status : Withdrawn 1964, Museum exhibit
Never considered to be a candidate for restoration, she has only ventured out of the museum once (when it was being re-built in 1998/1999) and at this time she was treated to "lining out" of paintwork, the previous coat having never been lined. There were in fact two locomotives bearing this name, the other was a mock-up used in the annual Douglas Carnival parade but the fate of this loco appears to be lost in the mists of time.
Origin of name : Traditional Manx Word (Meaning Isle Of Man)
Status : Withdrawn 1964, Museum exhibit
IMR Serviceable coach fleet 2011
Acknowledgment
An acknowlagement must be made to the IOMSRSA site and wikipeadia where some of the information for these notes were made.