The Season

The main season ran between Thursday 29th March and Sunday 30th September on a daily basis, with extra services running Mondays to Thursdays only in July and August.  Only the lunchtime (12.28pm) services crossed at Castletown with all other services passing as scheduled at Ballasalla Station.  Santa Trains operated to Santon on key dates in December.

Work continued on the conversion of Douglas Station to a cafe with the installation of a mezzanine floor by the tenants to create additional upstairs seating for diners, further marginalising the use by patrons, a downward spiral that would contnues for many years into the present day.

Locomotives

The operational fleet consisted of No.4 Loch (1874) in maroon, No.11 Maitland (1905) in Indian Red and No.13 Kissack (1910) with the boiler for No.12 Hutchinson (1908) returning from repair early in the year seeing the locomotive return to operation mid-season.   No.8 Fenella was the subject of boiler attention by her owners but failed to appear in operation.  The diesel railcars were largely relegated to departmental duties.

Displayed in the museum at Port Erin were No.1 Sutherland, No.15 Caledonia and No.16 Mannin while withdrawn and stored were No.6 Peveril , No.13 Kissack  and the frames of No.7 Tynwald which were at Castletown on the loading dock; privately owned No.5 Mona and No.9 Douglas were also in storage on the railway.  No.3 Pender remained in the Manchester Science Museum sectionalised on display.