2010 News
2010 News
Season Dates 2010
March-November
The year saw the first ever Rush Hour weekend which was hosted over the May bank holiday weekends (later such events were moved to the Easter period and discontinued after 2019), as well as spooky Hop-Tu-Naa trains and the station renamed in December becoming Tinseltown when, for the first time ever, the Santa Trains called at the station. April saw photographic using the station with No.10 G.H. Wood and a mixed train posed in the goods yard as well as performing run-pasts within station limits.
Locomotives
No.4 Loch (1874) regular performer throughout the season in the post-war Indian Red livery with bell-mouth dome still carried though this was entirely cosmetic as the locomotive did not carry Salter valves.
No.8 Fenella (1894) was still in private ownership but used on ocassion by arrangement with the owner, though this was largely restricted to events, charters and peak season throughout the year.
No.10 G.H. Wood (1905) the only locomotive to carry the spring green livery applied in 2007 to mark forty years of re-opening, based largely at Port Erin for the season and used on photographic charters.
No.12 Hutchinson (1908) another mainstay of the fleet, in the post-war Indian Red scheme as were the majority of the fleet; still with incorrect chimney numerals on a shorter cast chimney, later changed.
No.13 Kissack (1910) sporting the Indian Red livery and spending time in the workshops undergoing maintenece, it was largely used as spare locomotive as and when required during the peak season.
M.N.Ry. No.4 Caledonia (1885) not favoured for general use, the locomotive remained part of the active fleet nontheless, seeing use at the second Rush Hour weekend and during the festive period.
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