Following the cessation of hostilities the previous year, work recommenced on erecting dwellings on the adjacent Victoria Road, starting with those to the right of the modern entrance to the Sandfield Complex; these were initially created for employees of Castletown Brewery further down the road towards the town.

From this date the locomotive fleet began being outshopped in a new Indian Red livery in replacement of the green they had carried since the railway had opened. This would become standard until 1966.