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The Manx Electric Railway (Manx: Raad Yiarn Lectragh Vannin) is an electric interurban tramway connecting Douglas, Laxey and Ramsey in the Isle of Man. [1] It connects with the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway at its southern terminus at Derby Castle at the northern end of the promenade in Douglas, and with the Snaefell Mountain Railway at Laxey.
a Brill-Stephenson 1907 bogie car in that city’s unusual track gauge of 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in), bought for conversion to Manx Electric Railway’s almost identical 3 ft (914 mm) gauge, — conversion never implemented due to clearance difficulties; it was used as a passenger waiting shelter for a spell; vehicle now in off-site storage ...
There are many local stopping places on the Manx Electric Railway on the Isle of Man.Trams may stop wherever it is convenient to do so. Following is a list of the acknowledged stopping places. The primary (i.e. timetabled) stopping places are as follows, and are those featured on the time
Manx Northern Railway No.22 – No.29 1958 – 1966 Mr.36 – Mr.42 1898 Manx Northern Railway Co. Manx Northern Railway No.30 – No.36 1955 – 1964 M.43 – M.54 1911 Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon: Withdrawn 1955 – 1966 1955–1969 M.55 – M.60 1911 Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon: Withdrawn 1958 – 1965 1955 – 1969 M.61 – M.67 1925
The Manx Northern Railway (MNR) was the second common carrier railway built in the Isle of Man. It was a steam railway between St John's and Ramsey . It operated as an independent concern only from 1879 to 1905.
Manx Northern Railway: 1879: 1905: 3 ft (914 mm) 47 miles (76 km) Taken over by the Isle of Man Railway in 1905. Last tracks used 1969. Foxdale Railway: 1886: 1905: 3 ft (914 mm) 2.25 miles (3.62 km) Taken over by the Isle of Man Railway in 1905. Snaefell Mountain Railway: 1895 — 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 5.5 miles (8.9 km) Groudle Glen Railway ...
Ramsey Station (Manx: Stashoon Raad Yiarn Rhumsaa) was a station on the Manx Northern Railway, later owned and operated by the Isle of Man Railway; it served the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man, and was the terminus of a line that ran between St. John's and this station, which was the railway's headquarters.
Opened in 1886, this was the shortest branch of the Isle of Man Railway and the shortest-lived, closing as early as 1940 to all traffic. It was originally a separate affair from the other railways, but was taken over as part of the merger in 1905 together with the Manx Northern Railway to Ramsey. The tracks remained in situ for many years, and ...