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The Season
Starting early on Thursday 14th February trains did not operate on a daily basis initially, and ran until Tuesday 5th November with a limited commuter service between 28th May and 6th June on weekdays only; Southern 100 shuttle trains also ran on 8th, 9th and 10th July. A Blow Away The Cobwebs train concluded services at the end of December.
The annual Rush Hour event returned and ran across three days at Easter in April followed by the fifth Manx Heritage Transport Festival and the end of July and Santa Train in December which returned to their more traditional home of Santon Station following three trail years running to Castletown. The year saw the introduction of the dining train.
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Locomotives
No.4 Loch (1874) remained a regular performer, with No.8 Fenella (1894), No.10 G.H. Wood (1905), No.12 Hutchinson (1908) and No.13 Kissack (1910) with M.N.Ry. No.4 Caledonia (1885) also operational.
On display in the museum at Port Erin were No.16 Mannin and No.6 Peveril while No.5 Mona and No.9 Douglas remained in storage having returned to railway ownership the previous year. The frames of No.7 Tynwald had been removed from the island the previous year.
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