Manx Electric Railway rolling stock

This page details the rolling stock on the Manx Electric Railway on the Isle of Man, which is unique insofar as the railway still operates with all of its original tramcars and trailers, all of which are over one hundred years old, the latest dating from 1906. Save for a fire in which several cars and trailers were lost in 1930, all of the line's original rolling stock remains extant though many items have been out of use for a number of years, largely due to the decrease in tourism that the island has experienced over the last thirty years. Despite this, members of each class are still represented in situ today, though not all are in original form or in regular traffic.

Motors

M.E.R. "Tunnel" Class Car No. 6

Trailers

Restored M.E.R. Trailer No. 37

Others

Car No. 34 (Snaefell No. 7 Maria)

Bertie

a contractors' locomotive used when relays were being undertaken and subsequently purchased for permanent way use.

Bungle & Zippy

purchased second-hand from Bord na Móna in 2008 and refurbished on-island for further use on the railway.

Bonner Wagons

road-rail dual purpose wagons dating from the earliest days of the line, none of which are extant today.

Aachen 1010

bought for use but never converted, spending much of its life as a storage car at the railway's depot.

Car CCFL 360 in 1977, still in regular service in Lisbon.

Lisbon car (former CCFL 360)

a Brill-Stephenson 1907 bogie car in that city’s unusual track gauge of 900 mm (2 ft 11 ⁷⁄₁₆ in), bought for conversion to Manx Electric Railway’s almost identical 3 ft (914 mm) gauge, — conversion never implemented due to clearance difficulties; vehicle now in off-site storage on the island.

Dreadnought Trailers

bogie open wagons with removable sides used for a variety of non-passenger purposes, but particularly associated with stone traffic from Dhoon Quarry, now all scrapped. General 12 ton capacity bogie vehicles.

Four Wheel Goods Vehicles

from 1894 onwards the Douglas and Laxey Electric Tramway and its successors operated a fleet of small four wheel goods wagons, mainly of 5 ton, and 6 ton capacity. There were a total of ten opens and eight vans built by Milnes, Milnes Voss, and the MERCo between 1894 and 1912. Some of the vans were painted red and used for mail traffic.

See also

• Heritage railways in the Isle of Man
• Transport on the Isle of Man
• Manx Electric Railway

References

• Mike Goodwyn (1993). Manx Electric. Platform Five. ISBN 978-1-872524-52-8.
• Keith Pearson (1992). 100 Years Of Manx Electric Railway. Leading Edge. ISBN 0-948135-38-7.
• Robert Hendry (1978). Manx Electric Album. Hillside Publishing. ISBN 0-9505933-0-3.
• Norman Jones (1994). Isle Of Man Tramways. Foxline Publishing. ISBN 1-870119-32-0.

Sources

• Manx Manx Electric Railway Fleetlist (2002) Manx Electric Railway Society
• Island Island Images: Manx Electric Railway Pages (2003) Jon Wornham
• Official Tourist Department Page (2009) Isle Of Man Heritage Railways