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Car 2 and Trailer 40 have just crossed Parsonage Road and leave behind a busy scene as Trailer 41 coupled to Tunnel Car 6 awaits its turn to enter Ramsey Station prior to shunting. Paddlebox Car 26 can be seen in the distance. (Photo: MERS Collection)
Road, Rail, Sea and Air
“The island’s public and heritage transport network is slated for millions in capital funding, with £1.6m budgeted for new buses and £3m for rail network improvements in 2026-27 spending plans. The bus funding would deliver a “renewal of buses to maintain service reliability and reduce environmenta…
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“Restoring the capital's most historic public transport links will be on the mind of MHKs next week. When the House of Keys sits, Arbory, Castletown and Malew MHK Moorhouse wants to know when the horse trams will run all the way to the Sea Terminal again. He's due to ask Infrastructure Minister Tim…
“Bus Vannin will look to run hourly bus services on main routes from tomorrow with the MER due to be brought into use. This follows the confirmation that Unite the Union member bus drivers will be on strike from Saturday morning. “With challenge of unknown staffing levels the Division is looking to…
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Issue No. 103 will also include the usual full news roundup featuring the Island’s tramways and other Island transport, along with a range of original feature articles.
“Douglas South MHK Sarah Maltby has hit back after criticism from Charles Guard, saying she would have reinstated the horse tram tracks “within the first year of the election” had she been in a position to do so. Mr Guard recently highlighted that the issue of reinstating the lines has been ongoing…
Renowned champion of Manx Heritage, Charles Guard, challenges the members of Tynwald to put the Horse Trams back as they promised they would do nine years ago.
TODAY's featured
What at first glance appears to be one of the twenty-five Isle of Man Transport Marshall bodied Dennis Dart SLFs, number 17, parked up at the far end of Douglas Railway station yard is in reality a different vehicle. When the first five of the type were withdrawn and sold they comprised the range 1…
Douglas Corporation Tramways horse car 33 passes the War Memorial on Harris Promenade on a wet day in May 1982. The ratio of four staff to three passengers is unusual - the additional two being from the horse stables which, together with the extra reins indicate the car is being hauled by a 'traine…
Car 50, with its side doors slid shut arrives at Derby Castle station. (Photo: John Halsall)
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