Sulby Bridge Railway Station ( Manx: ''Stashoon Raad Yiarn Droghad Sulby'') was a station on the

Manx Northern Railway The Manx Northern Railway (MNR) was the second common carrier railway built in the Isle of Man. It operated as an independent concern only from 1879 to 1905. History When the people in the town of Ramsey realised their town was not going to ...

(MNR), later owned and operated by the

Isle of Man Railway The Isle of Man Railway (IMR) ( gv, Raad Yiarn Vannin) is a narrow gauge steam-operated railway connecting Douglas with Castletown and Port Erin on the Isle of Man. The line is narrow gauge and long. It is the remainder of what was a much ...

; it served the village of Sulby in the

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and was an intermediate stopping place on a line that ran between St. John's and

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Description and history

Sulby Bridge station was opened at the same time as the MNR's St. John's to Ramsey line on . The station was provided with a

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building, in the same style as those at

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and

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, and is still extant as a private residence. The station served the village of Sulby, as did nearby Sulby Glen railway station, but also had a long

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and, until the early 1960s, a goods

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Later years

The station and line were closed on but reopened on . The station finally lost its passenger service, along with all the other stations on the St John's to Ramsey line, on . The line through the station remained open for a service of oil tanks until , when the line was finally closed. The rails were lifted in 1974 and the trackbed is now a public right of way. Nothing remains of the station site today and the area has been redeveloped.

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{{coord, 54.324, -4.472, display=title, region:IM_type:railwaystation Railway stations in the Isle of Man Railway stations opened in 1879 Railway stations closed in 1968

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Later years

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