We got the grant, now the hard bit! Hopefully the fun bit too. We have funding to install heritage boards talking about the area's industrial and...
With respect to the boiler for Mannin; I asked a person who is closely connected with the railway about the boilers a year or two ago and he said...
My understanding is that at one point the Southwold Railway considered restoring Tynwald. Now they have a replica Sharp Stewart locomotive being...
It really is an astonishing time. What will be coming back next? Mr Sheard?
Fantastic stuff, it’s a really interesting time on the railway. It will be nice to see the carriage with ex-MNR loco Caledonia.
Being the exciting young accountant about town that I am, I have been re-reading Hendry and Hendry's "Manx Northern Railway" for I think the...
More from Facebook, Nos. 9 and 5 double heading a single (presumably very heavy) carriage into Port St Mary Station. Also they appear to be...
And now No. 5 Mona. This is a photo from the Isle of Man Steam Railway Supporters Association Facebook page and apparently it was taken last week....
So it’s official, they are removing the asbestos “from some of the island’s out-of-use steam engines.” However, I find the article to be ambiguous...
I appreciate that to most people associated with the railway the blue livery is in equal parts innovation, aberration and abhorrent, but to me it...
When I win the Euromillions I will pay to restore all of the out of service locomotives... on condition that they are all painted blue!!! Imagine...
If 1 and 6 are in the museum and 5 and 9 were cosmetically restored, I wondered whether they might be displayed outside at Douglas Station; or at...
Some photos posted on Facebook yesterday (not by me) of No. 9 Douglas at Port St Mary. I haven’t seen anything on the official Facebook pages, but...
Thanks Ray that’s brilliant. The “Trains of the Isle of Man” books have a lot of photos of Mona in service (I think at Peel), so I would have a...
It’s a very exciting time for the railway, I‘d guess it must be the biggest investment since Lord Ailsa got involved. Thanks for all the...
That's great, thanks!
Does anyone know of a miniature railway that we could hire in the north west? If we get the grant I'd like to hire a miniature railway for the day...
Thanks both! I've contacted the LYR society and they give me a lot of detail and were very helpful. That company look like exactly what I was...
Hi I'm going to put in a bid for a heritage lottery grant to get heritage boards and replica station signs put in along an old railway line...
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