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Car 29 mounted on the Corporation's road trailer and fresh from overhaul, makes it way down Broadway behind a DCT bus. The car is heading for Derby Castle during August 1976, ready to take its place in the horse tramway Centenary Procession a few days later. Until 1976 it was practice to overhaul h…
Road, Rail, Sea and Air
The Snaefell Mountain Railway played a key part in a rescue when, just after 1pm on Monday June 22nd, an emergency call alerted services to the stricken walker who had suffered a leg injury. Medical staff were ferried up Snaefell Mountain by the mountain railway after a walker was reported injured.…
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Treasury has been instructed to return to Tynwald in July with a capital funding request to complete reinstating the horse tram tracks. During an evening session of Tynwald on June 17th, politicians reviewed the draft business case presented by the Department of Infrastructure for laying the track…
The twelve-page “Heritage Business Case - Douglas Bay Horse Tramway Continuation to the Sea Terminal” will be the subject of a Supplementary Order Paper at this month's sitting of Tynwald on June 16th. The Minister for Infrastructure, Tim Crookall MHK, is to move that ‘Tynwald notes the draft busin…
“MHKs have questioned the cost of reinstating the horse tram tracks along the full length of Douglas Promenade with one saying it's a ‘bit of a nonsense’. The Department of Infrastructure is now claiming it could cost up to £3 million to lay the section between the War Memorial and the Sea Terminal…
“The contingency budget allocated to the reinstatement of the horse tram tracks has been ‘significantly increased’. The Department of Infrastructure says it’s followed a Treasury recommendation because of the ‘volatile global financial climate’. It’s now estimating that it will cost £3 million to r…
“The DoI says it will cost over £3m to partially restore the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway to the Sea Terminal. While the historic double track has been consigned to the pages of history, a single track line is still proposed. The DoI’s business case recommends installing a single line of tram tracks f…
World record breaking MER car No.1 has been in service today. David Umpleby has kindly made available these interesting and unusual photographs which were recorded during a journey over the MER’s spectacular Ramsey section. Car 1's beautifully varnished wooden interior The recently relaid track bet…
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Reproduction Published 1984
Car 2 is seen in Ramsey on a damp looking 19th June 1982, former long serving Ramsey Stationmaster Frank Docherty can be seen chatting in the background. The 1893 veteran had just worked a special journey in connection with a day excursion organised by the Manxman Steamer Society. (Photo: Colin Cli…
Well laden Manx Electric Railway Toastrack cars 32/62 pass over Baldromma road crossing during the main enthusiast event period in 2006, whilst in the background is an IoM Transport bus working the Douglas-Old Laxey route 13, no doubt with a lesser number of passengers. (Photo: Richard Dodge)
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