Tramway Terrace, Queens Promenade, Douglas, IM1 4NR
Douglas Bay Horse Tramway is the oldest horse-drawn passenger tramway to remain in service anywhere in the World. Established in 1876 by Thomas Lightfoot, and operated from 1902 until 2015 by Douglas Borough Council, it is now part of Isle of Man Transport. The 3ft gauge horse tramway runs along Douglas Promenade, from the end […]
April 08, 2023 @ Douglas Bay Horse Tram Stables
A chance to look at how the horses are kept and learn about the horse trams. Open days also in July, August and October.
October 28, 2023 @ Douglas Bay Horse Tram Stables
See where the horses are kept and learn about the trams.
December 02, 2023
Departures available from Laxey MER Station and Ramsey MER Station between 3pm and 6pm. Various dates. This is a ticketed event. Tickets on sale from the 1st October. Tickets sell out quickly.
Formed in 1973 to protect, promote and retain the development of the Manx Electric Railway and other Manx tramways. Their own publication is the “Manx Transport Review”. The society organised the 1993 “Year of Railways” to mark the centenary of the MER and are behind the very successful series of events which have followed and […]
Laxey Station, Laxey, IM4 7NY
The first mountain railway to be built in the British Isles. After careful planning, work began on lying the lines in the spring of 1893 and on the 7th of September 1893 the electric railway opened to take Victorian holiday makers up to the top of Snaefell. The tram regularly transported 20,000 passengers every season […]