Now here is a nice early date for your diary (does anyone have a 2025 diary handy yet?!)! Isle of Man Transport have announced the dates of the 2025 Manx Heritage Transport Festival and its going to be another packed six days of events across the island’s various tramways and railways.
It will take place between Tuesday 22nd and Sunday 27th July and highlights already announced include:
- Celebrating 130 years of the Snaefell Mountain Railway
- A special MER service to mark 50 years since the last postal collection on the MER in 1975
- Photography specials
- Guided track tours
- Workshop and Depot tours
- Motorman Taster Sessions
- Special timetable and combinations
- Unusual items of rolling stock in use
- Vintage buses and vehicles
- Taster events leading into 2026 when it will be the 150th anniversary of the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway and 50 years since the nationalisation of buses
Plenty more details will follow in due course.
And all this is announced before we finish our coverage of the 2024 event which should come in the next main site update!