Built: 1913

Status:            Demolished

Situated at the station-end of the Port Erin departure platform was a solitary red ruabon brick building, designed by local firm James Cowle & Sons, and built by Martin Carine; this edifice was the gentlemens toilet block which had been constructed "in view of growing business and woeful inaquacy of existing arrangements" according to records from the time.  Very few photographs exist of this building and it is not known when it was demolished, but the close proximity of the company's goods shed which appeared later may in some way be connected to its fate.  Perhaps that this most solubrious of locations was overlooked by the general manager's bay window in the nearby administrative building sealed its early fate?  Any information about this building and particularly photographs and demolition date, would be gratefully received by the webmaster.  A clear photograph of this building appears in James I.C. Boyd's definitive history of the railway, in the fourth edition published in 1992, claerly showing it prior to the erection of the platform canopies.  Today the toilet facilities have been amalgamated into one facility, although until the railway lost the use of the administrative block, now used by Customs & Excise, the ladies rooms were located there, today's toilets being entirely dedicated to gentlemens convenience.  This new block was erected in 1913.