The Season 

Trains operated on a daily basis from Friday 1st April until Sunday 30th October with additional services offered from 4th July until 29th August Mondays to Thursdays only, with the lunchtime (12.28pm) services passing at Castletown, all other trains passed at Ballasalla.  Santa Trains were operated as far as Santon over two weekend in December.

The fully restored station building was officially re-opened with due ceremony on Saturday 23rd July when a brass plaque was unveiled in the waiting room by Mr. P. Kermode M.H.K. commemorating the event which was also marked by a fair in the station grounds. Celebrations following the Year of Railways continued across the summer.

Locomotives

No.4 Loch (1874) spent several spells on the electric railway during the season and was returned chimney-first to Douglas when back on home metals; in the maroon livery applied on nationalisation in 1978.

No.10 G.H. Wood (1905) was re-commissioned the previous year and was in regular operation carrying the dark green livery generally shedded in Douglas under the care of senior driver John Elkin.

No.11 Maitland (1905) was a regular performer and retained the madder brown scheme with black/white lining out which was applied in 1989 following a short spell in matt black for filming purposes.

No.12 Hutchinson (1908) another mainstay of the fleet, in the non-standard blue livery with larger square cab and outsized boiler, a guise which it had been in since recommissioning in 1981.

No.17 Viking (1958) was now part of the fleet and saw occasional use in passenger traffic when locomotives failed and during event periods, the diesel railcars were relegated to operational duties at this time.

Remaining displayed in the museum at Port Erin were No.1 Sutherland and No.16 Mannin and No.15 Caledonia was stripped down in the workshops ahead of a return to traffic the following year.

No.6 Peveril  was removed from storage in the rear of the old carriage shed at the beginning of the year and cosmetically restored by the Isle of Man Steam Railway Supporters' Association in the post-war livery.

No.13 Kissack  was dismantled and stored in the workshops, the frames of  No.7 Tynwald displayed at Castletown while the privately owned No.5 Mona, No.8 Fenella and No.9 Douglas were in storage.