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The terminus structures were identical and both survive today; the diminutive mid-way request stop, named either "Waterfall" or "Waterfalls" (with or without the "s" depending on timetable issues), was served only by a small shelter and was briefly fitting with a siding. There were also at one early
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remain and there are still some rails visible in the road at the outer terminus. The famous "scissors" crossing behind the station is still said to be in situ, although unknown to most people as it is buried underneath a bank of hardcore from the mines. Foxdale may have the distinction of being the
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ran some services from Ramsey to
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abandoned this and built a new platform and station building on the alignment of the
Foxdale Railway more closely adjacent to the IMR station. Foxdale line trains used this facility until 1927, after which trains reversed in and out of the IMR station. Upon the opening of the railway, the
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Foxdale Line train during the railway's annual events periods each summer. There were initial proposals for a second locomotive to the same design as
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Scottish ancestry. It was the only locomotive purchased for the line and remains extant and operational on the remaining south line of the railway today. Similarly, only one carriage was purchased, the unique
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station on the Island's closed network which has most of its original station trackwork surviving. For several years after trains ceased the area was surrounded with mines "deads" leading it to gain the nickname "the back of the moon".
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in 1940. The railway had a lucrative contract for providing these spoils and it proved to be the last purposeful work carried out on the line, spoils being taken for onward travel along the north line to be used in runway construction.
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station before curving south and crossing the IMR's line from
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in conjunction with a proposed extension south but owing to the fortunes of the line this never came to fruition. Goods stock was commonly used on the line, these being from both the
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Station Road in
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which removed rails and other material from
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which was purchased to operate the line from its opening and remains in use today; seen displayed at
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