The south-east coast of the beautiful Isle of Man is home to two narrow gauge steam railways.
The 1ft 7in gauge Great Laxey Mines Railway connects the electric railway and Snaefell Mountain Railway with the giant waterwheel.that served a zinc/lead/copper mine. A low clearance tunnel takes the line beneath the road and the electric railway.
The two original locomotives, ANT and BEE were built by Stephen Lewin of Poole in 1877 and modern replicas were built in 2004. There is also a modern Clayon battery-electric, WASP.
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| ANT, the train locomotive |
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| Emerging from the tunnel showing the small passenger carriages |
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| BEE at the depot |
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| WASP, on charge at the shed |
Not far down the road is the Groudle Glen Railway, a 2ft gauge Victorian pleasure railway recovered from dereliction in the 1980s. The entire line has been rebuilt and all the buildings replaced.
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SEA LION, the orginal Bagnall 2-4-0T of 1896, running around the train at
Sea Lion Rocks |
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| Heading back through Lhen Coan |
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| The Victorian station has been beautifully recreated |
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| POLAR BEAR, a recreation of one of the 1921 battery locomotives |
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| ANNIE, a Bagnall replica that is receiving replacement cylinders |
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A new addition, a converted Simplex locomotive with a vertical steam boiler
fitted by Alan Keef Ltd. |
Lhen Coan
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