Manx Name: Gob-Y-Deigan
Preceding: St. Germain's
Distance: 12 Miles, 20 Chains (From Ramsey)
Opened: 13th July 1887
Closed: Unknown (Prior To 1905 Merger)
The exposed coastal section of the Manx Northern Railway between St. Germain's station and the Glen Mooar viaduct was served by this small halt in the very early days of the railway. This section of the line caused the railway company headaches over many years owing to subsidence which was regularly rectified by the dumping of used locomotive ash along the sides of the running line. This area is also cited as the reason for the railway acquiring a turntable to turn only the coaches, to equalise the weathering of paintwork at this exposed point. Today the trackbed is walkable and it noticable how much it has sunk even further. The halt was only short-lived and built to serve excursions for picnickers. It had no road access but did offer a basic waiting shelter, which survived in use as a lineside hut until the closure of the railway. Our photograph shows the halt in the final year the railway operated, long since it closed, and the shelter (by this time a platelayers' hut) is clearly visible.
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Ramsey Line (1879) 
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