Peel Road railway station
railway station in Isle of Man, the UK
Peel Road Railway Station (Manx: Stashoon Raad Yiarn Raad Purt ny h-Inshey) was a station on the Manx Northern Railway, later owned and operated by the Isle of Man Railway. It served the area known as Poortown in the Isle of Man and was an intermediate stopping place on a line that ran between St. John's and Ramsey.
Poortown / Peel Road
The station opened as Poortown in June 1883 (1883-06) and served the hamlet of the same name on the outskirts of the westerly hamlet of Peel. It was the closest station on the Manx Northern Railway to the hamlet and prior to its establishment the company considered either a spur or terminus station there, ultimately selecting a route to St. John's which connected with the Peel Line of the Isle of Man Railway Company. The station was renamed Peel Road in 1885 to reflect the fact that it was the railway's station closest to Peel, although it is also thought that the original title was derisory to the local inhabitants and the railway had received a number of requests to re-title the station.
Facilities
Status
The station was a request stop and appeared erratically on the company's timetable literature throughout its early years. The station was officially closed in June 1951 (1951-06) and removed from all timetable literature after this point. Trains did however still stop at the station upon request.
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