IN STORAGE AT PORT ERIN, 1983-1987

For the majority of the decade No.9 was stored in the former locomotive shed at Port Erin Station together with No.8 Fenella, then both in the ownership of the now-defunct Isle of Man Railway Society and retaining the spring green liveries applied two decades earlier. 













 

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