{"id":60602,"date":"2025-10-26T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60602"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:29:59","slug":"end-of-season-gala-to-take-place-on-isle-of-man-1st-and-2nd-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60602","title":{"rendered":"End of Season Gala to take place on Isle of Man 1st and 2nd November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As time continues to move on quickly, we are again about to reach the end of another operating season for the various railways and tramways on the Isle of Man but they won\u2019t be going out with a whimper as there will be a number of events taking place over the last weekend of 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November 2025.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway and Manx Electric Railway will be taking part in this End of Season Gala (as will the Isle of Man Steam Railway) as the curtain is drawn on another successful operating season.<\/p>\n<p>Planned events are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 1<sup>st<\/sup> November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Douglas Bay Horse Tramway \u2013 Foal naming ceremony at 1400 at Derby Castle (voting remains open until Wednesday 29<sup>th<\/sup> October <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=NgjAORLt2kibl1lNgI8D5c1lkbAnt85Kk5m3W-QNrv1URFdTNlRTMVJMVVk0NVI1VjAxU0NMU0RTMS4u\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Isle of Man Steam Railway \u2013 Selection of headboards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Douglas Bay Horse Tramway \u2013 Cavalcade starting at Derby Castle at 1400<\/p>\n<p>Isle of Man Steam Railway &#8211; Selection of headboards<\/p>\n<p>Manx Electric Railway \u2013 Good Vans in service to commemorate 50 years since the end of the mail service on the MER<\/p>\n<p>And if you can\u2019t make it how about some dates for your 2026 diaries?<\/p>\n<p>28<sup>th<\/sup> July to 2<sup>nd<\/sup> August \u2013 Manx Heritage Transport Festival<\/p>\n<p>7<sup>th<\/sup> August \u2013 Douglas Bay Horse Tramway 150<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As time continues to move on quickly, we are again about to reach the end of another operating season for the various railways and tramways on the Isle of Man but they won\u2019t be going out with a whimper as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60604,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60602\/revisions\/60604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}