The Season

Easter services kicked off the year running between  Monday 13th April and Sunday 20th April before the season proper strated on  Monday 7th May on a daily basis until Sunday 29th September.  Extra services were operated Mondays to Thursdays in July & August only; the lunchtime (12.28pm) services crossed at Castletown with all other services passing as scheduled at Ballasalla. Santa Trains operated to Santon on key dates in December.

Locomotives

No.4 Loch (1874) carried the maroon livery spent the season as south-based locomotive, with No.11 Maitland (1905) in Indian Red, No.12 Hutchinson (1908) in blue with square cab, No.13 Kissack (1910) in mid-green completing the quartet of operational locomotives.

Displayed in the museum at Port Erin were No.1 Sutherland, No.15 Caledonia and No.16 Mannin while withdrawn and stored No.6 Peveril , and No.7 Tynwald, privately owned  were No.5 Mona, No.8 Fenella and No.9 Douglas with No.3 Pender in the Manchester Science Museum.