The Season

The season was operated from Friday 5th April until Sunday 27th October on a daily basis with additional services running on Mondays to Thursdays from 15th  July to 29th August.  The lunchtime (12.28pm) trains used Castletown as a paassing place with all other services using Ballasalla to pass; Santa Trains ran over two weekends in December as far as Santon.

With the Groudle Glen Railway centenary commemorations taking place in May amid a week of events, closer to home the Poulsom Park 100th anniversary was on 23rd  June with an event and the station and commemorative headboards carried by all service trains for the day. One of these now hangs in the restored waiting room.

Locomotives

Newest restored locomotive in the fleet, No.10 G.H. Wood (1905) was in regular operation carrying the Brunswick Green livery with sister No.11 Maitland (1905) also in regular use in a Madder Brow scheme.  No.12 Hutchinson (1908) remained in the blue livery while No.17 Viking (1958) was largely on departmental duties.

In the museum at Port Eri displayed were No.1 Sutherland, No.15 Caledonia and| No.16 Mannin while withdrawn and stored were No.4 Loch , No.6 Peveril  and No.13 Kissack , the frames of No.7 Tynwald remaining at Castletown.  Privately owned and in store were No.5 Mona, No.8 Fenella and No.9 Douglas.