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; ''Bertie''
: a contractors' locomotive used when relays were being undertaken, since moved to UK.
; ''Bungle'' & ''Zippy''
: hired second-hand from Bord na Móna in 2008 and refurbished on-island for further use on the railway, since returned to UK.
; Bonner Wagons
: road-rail dual purpose wagons dating from the earliest days of the line, none of which are extant today.
; Aachen 1010
: a Talbot/Kiepe bogie car from Aachen’s series 1001-1011, built in 1956-1957 and retired in 1974; bought for use but never converted, spending much of its life as a storage car at the railway's depot.
; Lisbon 360
: a
Lisbon No.360
''Manx Electric Railway Online'' ; 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.
Manx Electric Railway
The Manx Electric Railway ( Manx: ''Raad Yiarn Lectragh Vannin'') is an electric interurban tramway connecting Douglas, Laxey and Ramsey in the Isle of Man. It connects with the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway at its southern terminus at Derby Castle ...
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, which is unique insofar as the railway still operates with its original tramcars and trailers, all of which are over one hundred years old, the latest dating from 1906. Save for a fire in 1930 in which several cars and trailers were lost, 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 on the island over the last thirty years. Despite this, members of each class are still represented on site today, though not all are in original form or in regular use.
Motors
Trailers
Others
; ''Bertie''
: a contractors' locomotive used when relays were being undertaken, since moved to UK.
; ''Bungle'' & ''Zippy''
: hired second-hand from Bord na Móna in 2008 and refurbished on-island for further use on the railway, since returned to UK.
; Bonner Wagons
: road-rail dual purpose wagons dating from the earliest days of the line, none of which are extant today.
; Aachen 1010
: a Talbot/Kiepe bogie car from Aachen’s series 1001-1011, built in 1956-1957 and retired in 1974; bought for use but never converted, spending much of its life as a storage car at the railway's depot.
; Lisbon 360
: a Brill
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- Stephenson 1907 bogie car in that city’s unusual track gauge of , bought for conversion to Manx Electric Railway’s almost identical gauge, — conversion never implemented due to clearance difficulties; it was used as a passenger waiting shelter for a spell; vehicle now in off-site storage on the island.Lisbon No.360
''Manx Electric Railway Online'' ; 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
The Isle of Man has a rich transport heritage and boasts the largest narrow-gauge railway network in the British Isles with several historic railways and tramways still in operation. These operate largely to what is known as "Manx Standard Gauge" ...
*Transport on the Isle of Man
There are a number of transport services around the Isle of Man, mostly consisting of paved roads, public transport, rail services, sea ports and an airport.
Roads
The island has a total of of public roads, all of which are paved. Roads are ...
*Manx Electric Railway
The Manx Electric Railway ( Manx: ''Raad Yiarn Lectragh Vannin'') is an electric interurban tramway connecting Douglas, Laxey and Ramsey in the Isle of Man. It connects with the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway at its southern terminus at Derby Castle ...
References
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