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| Station Name: |
Waterfall / Waterfalls |
| Manx Name: |
Not Applicable |
| Distance: |
1 Mile, 20 Chains (From St. John's) |
| Opened: |
17th August 1886 |
| Closed: |
30th September 1943 (Officially) |
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The establishment of the independent railway between St. John’s and Foxdale had largely been for mining traffic, but some passengers were carried.This station was established in an effort to make the railway more appealing for travellers, to save them walking to the station at Foxdale proper.It was provided with a shelter and passing loop, the policy of catch points was unique to the Foxdale Company and these protected the main line from the passing loop line.
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Appearing sporadically in the timetables, this halt served the lower part of the village.The title was also something of a misnomer, appearing with or without the suffix "s" seemingly at random. Being primarily a freight line (indeed, so infrequently were passengers carried that the line had only one passenger vehicle known to all as the “Foxdale Coach”!) the halt was never really considered as a station as such and often disappeared from the company’s timetables for a year.
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The station continued open through the amalgamation although it was downgraded to request stop in 1928 and remained so until closure. The shelter was recorded as till being in existence for a considerable number of years after closure though a visit in 1996 revealed that had been removed at some point in the previous years or so. The rails through here lifted as late as 1974 when the other closed lines were also dismantled.
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| The site of the halt now forms part of a public right of way, just as many of the closed lines do.There is however no evidence that a railway ever passed through this quiet location, although local residents still dig up cast chairs from the sleepers, a technique unique on the island to this particular stretch of line. |
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Foxdale Line (1886) 
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