Manx Electric Railway - Stations

Stations

There are several established intermediate stations, but Groudle Glen, Laxey, Dhoon Glen, Cornaa and Ballaglass Glen are the main stations shown in the timetables. The official stopping points usually have a basic waiting shelter (more recent additions have been modern bus shelters), and there are also a number of "unofficial" stopping points along the line and these sometimes carry "request stop" notices but are not given station nameboards or any other passenger facilities. Several have been dubbed with titles in the more rural areas that cite the name of the nearby farm or farmer; these are most prevalent in the northern section with names such as Rome's Crossing, Watson's Crossing and Dhoon Farm, but none of these occasional stopping places have ever carried their own names. Some lesser-known stopping points are also known by their nearest pole number, with the overhead lines being carried by a succession of these, numbered between 1 and 1,904 from Derby Castle to Ramsey Plaza. Owing to the inter-urban nature of operations tram cars will stop within reason at any point where it is safe to do so, the notable exceptions being where the line runs parallel to a main road; the majority of the first section of the line as far as Baldrine Station runs in this way, as do sections on the approach to the northern terminus as the line runs into the suburban area of Ramsey. These sections were originally toll roads, installed at the same time as the tramway.