Manx Electric Railway rolling stock

This page details the rolling stock on the Manx Electric Railway on the Isle of Man, 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.

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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 Brill-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.


 * 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.