Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 18:55 30 Jan 2025
 
* What we know so far about the crash
- Listen: Air traffic controllers appear to try to stop collision
- US and Russian figure skaters were on board crashed plane
- What's the plan for a third runway at Heathrow Airport?
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]
 02/02/25 - Western Gateway consult. ends
12/02/25 - TWSW Integrated Webinar
15/02/25 - Special Bletchey to Bicester
20/02/25 - Integrated Transport Strategy

On this day
30th Jan (1890)
Great Western Railway Temperance Union (link)

Train RunningCancelled
15:28 Weymouth to Gloucester
17:20 Reading to Gatwick Airport
18:59 Gatwick Airport to Reading
19:08 Bristol Temple Meads to Gloucester
20:10 Gloucester to Bristol Temple Meads
Short Run
18:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading
19:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
Delayed
17:27 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
PollsOpen and recent polls
Open to 06/02 18:47 Which of these do you agree with?
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple MeadsBath SpaChippenhamSwindonDidcot ParkwayReadingLondon PaddingtonMelksham
Exeter St DavidsTauntonWestburyTrowbridgeBristol ParkwayCardiff CentralOxfordCheltenham SpaBirmingham New Street
January 30, 2025, 19:04:34 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[121] Melksham to Penzance, 28th January 2025
[121] Plans for faster trains and 30 new stations
[57] Derailment of a passenger train at Grange-over-Sands, 22/3/24
[50] Birthday trip, Melksham to Penzance - 28th January 2025
[46] OTD - 26th January (2007) - Coffee Shop Domain registered
[36] IEP seats in 2025
 
News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: Ramsey Section of MER in Doubt  (Read 2953 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 43210



View Profile WWW Email
« on: November 24, 2023, 04:46:57 »

From gef

Quote
A review into the island’s railways has considered reducing or closing entirely the Laxey to Ramsey section of the Manx Electric Railway.

Engineering and transport consultants SYSTRA were contracted undertake a review of the Isle of Man’s heritage railways earlier this year.

While the report has yet to be published, an FoI from Gef has revealed that discussions have been had around cutting or severely reducing the service on the section from Laxey from Ramsey.
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member
infoman
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1482


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2023, 07:22:59 »

Might be a bit of urgency to visit I of M,

although I always wanted to visit I of M to see where Norman Wisdom spent that last years of his life.
Logged
Mark A
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1823


View Profile
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2023, 09:45:15 »

A friend took a job in Ramsey, I'm trying to recall its timetable after it reopened in 1977 after, was it a couple of years closure, and also wondering when was the last time the Manx Electric Railway was a year-round operation.

I think I recall staying in Ramsey before the line to Laxey was reopened in June of that year, and then another visit at a later date when the service ran at public transport times - i.e. into the evenings, allowing an early evening trip south to Laxey, returning at what was either 10:30 or 11:30pm with the station lit by its own lamps, with additional illumination as a couple of trams arrived, meeting at Laxey from north and from the south and a bustle of people changing, including those who were heading back along the darkened coast to Ramsey (us included).

Mark
Logged
Oxonhutch
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 1356



View Profile
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2023, 10:04:59 »

The last time it closed there was a marked drop-off of use on the whole MER route which was reversed by its reopening. I hope they don't make the same mistake twice.
Logged
JayMac
Data Manager
Hero Member
******
Posts: 19262



View Profile
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2023, 10:10:08 »

Glad I got my bucket list trip to the Isle of Man in earlier this year. I was able to travel all the railway/tramway lines open to the public on the island. Here's the station at Ramsey and a tram awaiting departure for the journey to Laxey and Douglas.


Logged

"Good news for regular users of Euston Station in London! One day they will die. Then they won't have to go to Euston Station ever again." - David Mitchell
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of pageJump to Forum Home Page