The Season

Train services commenced for the season on Friday 14th April and ran daily until Sunday 29st October with extra services between 3rd July and 31st August on Mondays to Thursdays only.  Only the lunchtime (12.28pm) services crossed at Castletown with all other services using the loop at  Ballasalla Station.  As well as this, Santa Trains operated as far as Santon for two weekends in December.

Locomotives

No.4 Loch (1874) would see service all season but was withdrawn following use on the Santa Trains and later entered the railway museum before being restored with a boiler provided by the Supporters' Association.

No.10 G.H. Wood (1905) was generally the main service locomotive out of the capital having been overhauled  two years previously, carrying the dark green livery of the pre-war years.

No.11 Maitland (1905) In The Indian Red Post-War Livery

No.12 Hutchinson (1908) In Blue Livery With Large Square Cab

No.15 Caledonia (1885) was re-commissioned on Good Friday and was the star attraction of the celebratory year, memorably returning a number of times to the Snaefell Mountain Railway.

No.17 Viking (1958) was on standby as and when required, hauling specials during events periods and otherwise being used for shunting purposes around the workshops and on permanent way duties.

Displayed in the museum at Port Erin were No.1 Sutherland and No.16 Mannin later joined by No.6 Peveril  

No.13 Kissack  and No.7 Tynwald were both dismantled, the latter displayed on the loading dock at Castletown while the privately owned No.5 Mona, No.8 Fenella and No.9 Douglas were stored on railway premises, No.3 Pender in the Manchester Science Museum and No.14 Thornhill in private storage in the north of the Island.