LMR, Second Class Odds and Ends

[What About The Bee]

Here, I complete the survey of known second class carriages of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

These have either a simple drawing or text without any corresponding drawing.  We know they existed.

From the Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 1 August 1829.  More than 1 year before the LMR opened.

Quote:  Near the entrance of the small tunnel at Edge Hill, the proprietors of the rail-road have erected extensive buildings in a spacious enclosed yard , for the construction of waggons for the conveyance of goods, carriages for passengers and other pieces of machinery.  Several elegant machines of various construction are already built, and others in a state forwardness. 

Odds and Ends Number One

The most simple machine, and that slated for the cheapest conveyance of passengers is neat and appropriate. Without any covering overhead, the passengers sit in two rows, (parallel with the road,)back to back : a common rail serving for support to their backs, their feet resting on foot-boards, in the manner of a double Irish car¹, the four wheels being under the seats.

Odds and Ends Number Two
 
The next machine is a long coach, with doors at each end.  On the outside of the body, and overhanging the wheels, are seats for outside passengers, who will sit sideways: Irish car fashion, with a projecting roof over their heads.  This coach will carry sixteen inside and sixteen outside passengers.

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Odds and Ends Number Three

Crane is a reliable first hand artist.  He provides us with this unique image of two 2nd class carriages.  The shape is reminiscent of the very early Booth 2nd Class carriage.  We know that this is meant the way it is drawn, as the nominal blue 2nd carriages are shown with this one.
 

The canopy and doors have a shape illustrated in no other aquatint. Of special note, the stirrups to mount the carriage are as Hornby have modeled! 

No text accompanies the image. 

Bee

¹reference: Irish Style Jaunting Car