Manx Electric Railway

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Chapters: Snaefell Mountain Railway, Snaefell Summit railway station, Manx Electric Railway rolling stock, Derby Castle Depôt, Derby Castle terminus, Groudle Glen railway station, Howstrake Camp Halt, Onchan Head railway station, Bungalow railway station, Groudle Lane Halt, Port Jack Halt, Ramsey tram station, Garwick Glen Halt, Laxey Car Sheds, Majestic Halt, Dhoon Quarry Halt, Manx Electric Cars 19-22, Balladromma Beg Halt, Eskadale Halt, Laxey station, Walpole Drive Halt, Ballaragh Halt, Far End Halt, Dumbell's Row Halt, Ballure Halt, Ballabeg railway station, Baldrine railway station, List of Manx Electric Railway stations, Fairy Cottage Halt, Belle Vue Halt, Dhoon Glen Halt, Queens Drive Halt, Corkill's Crossing, Cornaa railway station, Ballastowell Halt, Crowcreen Halt, Ballaglass Glen Halt, Manx Electric Cars 4-9, Minorca Halt, Ballaskeig Halt, Ballamoar Halt, Thalloo Mitchell, Skinscoe Halt, Dolland Halt, The Garey, Lewaigue railway station, Laxey Old Road Halt, Watson's Crossing, Burn's Crossing, Dhoon Farm Halt, Ballasholague Halt, Brown's Crossing, South Cape Halt, Ballagorry Halt, Ballamenagh Halt, Braeside Halt, Ballig Halt, Ballellin Halt, Glen Mona railway station, Scarffe's Crossing, Manx Electric Cars 1-3, Ballagawne Halt, Manx Electric Trailers 57-58, Preston's Crossing, Manx Electric Trailers 49-54, Sunnycott Halt, Miller's Crossing Halt, Manx Electric Cars 10-13, Lamb's Crossing, Ballafayle Halt, Manx Electric Car 34, Manx Electric Cars 14-18, Manx Electric Trailers 36-39, Ballajora Halt, Ballajora Quarry Halt, Dreemskerry Farm Halt, Rome's Crossing, Dreemskerry Halt, Crowville Halt, Manx Electric Cars 29-33, Ballacannell Halt, Manx Electric Trailers 55-56, Manx Electric Locomotive 23, Manx Electric Cars 24-27, Manx Electric Trailers 40-41, Manx Electric Trailer 59, Manx Electric Trailers 42-44, Manx Electric Trailers 45-48, Manx Electric Trailer 60, Manx Electric Trailers 61-62. Excerpt: The Snaefell Mountain Railway is an electric mountain railway on the Isle of Man in Europe. It joins the town of Laxey with the summit of Snaefell, at 620 metres (2,034 ft) above sea level the highest point on the island. It connects with the Manx Electric Railway (MER) in Laxey. The line is 5 miles (8.0 km) long, built to gauge and uses a Fell Incline Railway System centre rail for braking on the steep gradients. It is electrified using overhead wires at 550 volts direct current, with bow collectors. Car No.4 Note Central "Fell" Rail.Services operate at regular intervals between April and September, taking 30 minutes for a one-way journey. There is no winter service: the overhead wires on the exposed upper part of the route are dismantled to avoid damage from icing. All passenger traffic is carried in six wooden-bodied electric railcars, built in 1895 and numbered 1 to 6. Car 5 was burned out in an accident in 1970 and its body is a replacement built in 1971 to a similar design. The cars were re-equipped in the late 1970s with new bogies to a design based on the original, using motors and traction equipment from withdrawn Aachen trams. Because of the different gauge and the centre rail, vehicles cannot inter-run between the railway and the 3 ft gauge MER. Railway vehicles are occasionally worked to the MER workshops at Douglas by swapping their bogies, and to aid this there is a dual gauge siding in Laxey. The railway is owned and operated by Isle of Man Heritage Railways, a department of the Isle of M...