Isle of Man Railway

Isle of Man Railway ( IoMR ) was (914 mm) founded in 1873 to 3 -foot track that was decisive for other routes on the island. It is the longest narrow gauge railway in the British Isles and runs 16 miles (26 km) between Douglas, capital of the Isle of Man, and Port Erin and is still operated today with steam locomotives, the first of which were delivered at the opening.

These tracks were all built to transport the funded in the lead mines products. As since 1911 collapsed the Erzabsatz, the ore mining on the island, however, is set. The still operated railways serve the rain tourist traffic, blooming with views of the historic workings.

In Port Erin is also a museum on the history of steam trains on the Isle of Man.

History

The first section of society was (19 km) opened on 1 July 1873 by the island's capital, Douglas to Peel today's 11.5 miles of track length. The track was open until September 1968, with an interruption in 1966, in which lay still the whole network of IoMR. Since 1975, the tracks were cleared away, the property is as a hiking trail and the terminus of Peel as a museum depot in sleep duration.

The second route from Douglas to Port Erin measures 16 miles and was opened on 1 August 1874. The fleet consisted initially next five locomotives 40 other vehicles. 1928 had the IoMR 46.25 miles track, had 16 tank locomotives of the wheel arrangement 1B by Beyer Peacock & running, drove 118 passenger cars and 151 other cars and support vehicles. The operation is handled largely still true to history. Since 2001, the crossings are no longer manually closed, but law-abiding operated automatically, only ordered tourist trains can enjoy the manual closing procedure yet.

The third route went back to the Railway Act the Government of the Isle of Man on 22 March 1878 which provided a route to the north of the island of Ramsey to St. John's Junction approximately in the middle of the island. However, this route led through a little -populated area, so that a second railway company was founded under the name Manx Northern Railway ( IoMNR ) for this line, the 16.5 miles of Ramsey, on Lezayre, Sulby Bridge, Sulby Glen, Ballaugh to Bishop 's Court led to then reach through a magnificent coastal landscape over Kirkmichael its terminus at the St. John's IoMR - route to Peel. This route was on 23 September 1879 in operation. Although the contract of the two railway companies allowed to transport the cars of IoMR on the IoMNR - track, but did not provide compensation costs, the trains were, however, traversed by Ramsey to Douglas. The total traffic was stopped in 1968. Relics of this ride at the Museum of the web in the Manx Electric Railway station in Ramsey. The operating systems are only recognizable with trained eyes.

By further Railways Act of June 13, 1883, a fourth railroad to connect Foxdale to St John's has been approved until 1886 driving began and on August 16, 1866, a special train for shareholders of Foxdale Railway ( FR) was opened. The material went after 1891 lead mining had been recruited to the IoMR over, having sailed until 1905. 1970 could see only overgrown railway tracks.

The railways were largely ruined in 1955 and were offered the British government to take over. The review yielded the sobering result, the traffic is more economical to handle by coach and bus. Tynwald only allowed for continued operation of the line to Port Erin. The passenger traffic was shifted to the buses of the IoMR. Freight remained all lanes of the island only for their own use.