For five days every July, last year from Wednesday 27 until Sunday 31, heritage transport events are put on with the enthusiast in mind, but which seem equally popular with holidaymakers on the Isle of Man, reports Dick Bodily. Despite the rail strike and thanks to a National Express coach to Liverpool to catch the evening ferry to Douglas, I arrived in time for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday events and managed to watch the very intensive Sunday morning Manx Electric Railway services before catching the afternoon ferry back to Liverpool.
It was not possible to see all the heritage action taking place as there was so much going on from Port Erin in the south west to Ramsey in the north east. I spent the Thursday focusing
