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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 ...
The Isle of Man Railway ... seven trains each way on the three main routes was the usual winter timetable in the 1920s and 30s. ... From 1969 only the southern route ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Foxdale Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge branch line which ran from St. John's to Foxdale [1] in the Isle of Man.The line ran 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (3.6 km) [2] from an end-on junction with the Manx Northern Railway west of St. John's, then passed to the north of the Isle of Man Railway station before curving south and crossing the IMR's line from Douglas via an overbridge (the only ...
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)
One of the characteristics of the Isle of Man Railway is the numerous level crossings and farm crossings along the various routes; many smaller crossing places are marked only by gates that criss-cross farm land and provide access to private roads connecting the farms to the main roads. Being largely rural in nature the railway has many of ...