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The Isle of Man Railway (IMR) is a narrow gauge steam-operated railway connecting Douglas with Castletown and Port Erin in the Isle of Man. The line is 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow gauge and 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (25 kilometres) long.
Map all coordinates in "List of Isle of Man railway lines and locations" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Main article: Rail transport in the Isle of Man The Isle of Man has many railway lines, both current and historical. This is a list of those lines intended to carry passengers, either for public ...
Isle of Man Railway: 1873 — 3 ft (914 mm) 15.5 miles (24.9 km) Peel line closed 1969 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 ...
Douglas Railway Station (Manx: Stashoon Raad Yiarn Ghoolish) is the main terminus of the Isle of Man Railway and is located at the landward end of the quay in Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man. It was once the hub for now closed lines to Peel , Ramsey and Foxdale .
The island has a total of 688 miles (1,107 km) of public roads, [1] all of which are paved. Roads are numbered using a numbering scheme similar to the numbering schemes of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; each road is assigned a letter, which represents the road's category, followed by a 1 or 2 digit number.
James I.C. Boyd Isle Of Man Railway, Volume 3, The Routes & Rolling Stock (1996) ISBN 0-85361-479-2; Norman Jones Scenes from the Past: Isle of Man Railway (1994) ISBN 1-870119-22-3; Robert Hendry Rails in the Isle of Man: A Colour Celebration (1993) ISBN 1-85780-009-5; A.M Goodwyn Manx Transport Kaleidoscope, 2nd Edition (1995)
By far the most scenic route operated by the railway, it featured two viaducts at Glen Wyllin and Glen Mooar and was nearly 17 miles in length. The railway ran independently until 1905 when the Isle of Man Railway took over operations, together with the amalgamation of the Foxdale Railway , thereby controlling the entire steam railway network ...
Castletown Railway Station (Manx: Stashoon Raad Yiarn Valley Chashtal) is an intermediate station on the Isle of Man Railway on the Isle of Man forming part of sole remaining section of the once extensive network that operated across the island. The station is the busiest of the railway's intermediate stations, being the closest to a number of ...