Sulby Bridge railway station

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Station statistics
Sulby Bridge Manx Northern Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Opened	September 23, 1879 (1879-09-23)
Closed	September 6, 1968 (1968-09-06)

Sulby Bridge was a station on the Manx Northern Railway (MNR) on the Isle of Man.

1 Description and history
2 Route
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Description and history

Sulby Bridge station was opened at the same time as the MNR's St. John's to Ramsey line on September 23, 1879 (1879-09-23). The station was provided with a sandstone building, in the same style as those at Kirk Michael and Ballaugh, and is still extant as a private residence. The station served the hamlet or Sulby, as did nearby Sulby Glen railway station, but also boasted a long passing loop and, until the early 1960s, a goods siding.

Along with the rest of the Isle of Man Railway netwrk, the station and line was closed on November 13, 1965 (1965-11-13) but reopened on June 3, 1967 (1967-06-03). The station finally lost its passenger service, along with all the other stations on the Ramsey line, on September 6, 1968 (1968-09-06). The line through the station remained open for a service of oil tanks until October 1969 (1969-10), when the Ramsey line was finally closed. The rails were lifted in 1974 and the trackbed is now a public right of way.