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SUMMARY Boosting income attributable to the Island’s heritage railways by attracting more visitors and increasing ridership has been done before and can reliably be done again Increasing fares and cutting routes and services will have the opposite effect YEAR OF RAILWAYS 1993 promotion brought 25,0…
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Passengers on the Manx Electric now have yet another reason to travel, thanks to the reopening of a once-popular pub which is now a café. The Liverpool Arms, located along the A2 coastal road between Onchan and Baldrine, closed in 2017, with the landlord blaming a decline in trade, ‘particularly ov…
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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.…
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…
TODAY's featured
Car 6 on Winter works duties, pushes Trailer 52 laden with sleepers through Laxey Station as they head North for the work site at Ballaragh where the track was under repair. Alongside, Winter Saloon 19 receives attention from Mike Goodwyn prior to operating the first journey of the day to Douglas.…
Another Manx Electric Railway 'parallel running' event took place twenty one years ago, on October 31, 1993, again between Derby Castle and Groudle. On this occasion the oldest and newest classes of MER power cars were employed - 1893 Milnes car 1 and 1906 United Electric Car Co 32. At Groudle, wit…
SMR Car 4 was taken out of service at the end of the 1991 season to undergo works attention at Derby Castle Depot. Following a protracted rebuild/overhaul, the car returned to service on Good Friday 1995, in time to participate in the Snaefell Mountain Railway’s centenary celebrations. A very smart…
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