Carriage 1963

Carriage No: 1963 was a railway carriage owned by Tri-ang Railways and has been scrapped. It has been rebodied in 1988 after original body was destroyed by fire in 1974.

The carriage's history has been filled with tragedy since the day it was built in the USA.

History
Carriage No: 1963 was built by Rogers Locomotive Works in New Jersey, the same works that built "Experimental 1", in 1889 for Tri-ang Railways (TR) for suburban services on the "Highland Line" from 1888 to 1912 and later served on the mainline in intercity services like runs from Thorndyke to Portsmouth but has never been used a lot when second-hand rolling stock from the Mainland was bought by TR.

In 1974, the carriage mysteriously caught fire and the wooden body was destroyed. In 1988, the carriage was rebodied with a BR Mark 2A type body and had the vacuum brakes removed for air-brake installation. The carriage re-entered service June of that year

Basis
Carriage 1963 (in original form) is based on a standard American carriage on a shorter LNER Gresley Teak stock frame. After the fire destroyed the original wooden body in 1974, the carriage was given the body shape of a BR Mark 2A but only shorter, due to the length of the frame.

Deaths involved with Carriage 1963
All these cases are believed to be linked due to three victims being the same age, wounded in the same spots, the neck and heart, and all were female.
 * During construction at Rogers, a worker's 13-year-old daughter was killed when a wall fell on her. Nails hammered into the wall pierced her in the neck and heart. She died on site.
 * In 1973, a 13-year-old girl was found in compartment 5 with stab wounds in her neck and heart. Her ghost has been seen in the carriage until the body was destroyed by fire in 1974, believed to been lighted by her ghost.
 * In 1991, two sisters, one 13 and the other 15, found died with bullet wounds in the neck and heart.