The Goods Yard
The Goods Yard
The station retains its two goods sidings, accessed via facing points by southbound trains; the siding serve the dock at the rear, this shortened in 1994, having originally extended to approximately the site of the rear door to the booking office; it was shortened in 1980 as far as the goods shed and was used until 1991 to display the railway's breakdown crane prior to its removal from the site and moving to Union Mills.
The siding was lifted for drainage work in 2020 and has yet to be reinstated, it is presently stored in panels in the yard. The front siding provides rail access to the goods shed and extends beyond the shed towards the station building and is in its original configuration, the spur being for ease of vehicular access. Today an occupation crossing serving Poulsom Park bisects the yard, but is gated at the end of the car park; this are was gravelled to rail height until the installation of a long lawn in 1980, otherwise remaining original.
The goods yard in 1968 with one of the Empress Vans on the front siding and sleepers stored beside the loading platform.
Photographic charter train with No.8 Fenella, the Foxdale Coach and van Gr.12 using the front siding in 2019.
F.28 is one of two luggage vans dating from 1897 seen here in the yard during the 1966 closure in all-over brown livery.
In 1968 during the short-lived Man-Tainor experiment the yard was used as a loading point for shipping containers.
No.11 Maitland backing onto her train viewed from the yard, the siding is lifted here to allow draining work for the estate.
Shunting stock with No.8 Fenella, the Foxdale Coach on the loop and vand Gr.12 using the front siding in 2019.
Manx Northern Railway recreation train posed with M.N.Ry. No.4 Caledonia, the Foxdale Coach and restored bread lorry.
Isle of Man Ferry Express containers mounted on drop-side wagons during the short-lived Man-Tainor experiment in 1968.