For most of its life this station was called Ramsey Plaza, after the Plaza Cinema next door. The cinema is gone now, demolished and turned into a car park, but the name lingers on signage and in habit. The station also goes by Ramsey Tram Station - signage to that effect adorns the building, even though the line itself is described, technically, as a railway. The original station was a simple lean-to shelter with a booking hall and some nearby stalls, much like the one still standing at Laxey down the line. Over the years the site has been redrawn repeatedly. For a time the station facilities were housed inside the Plaza Building itself, and a separate timber construction on the site served as the town's Citizens Advice Bureau.

Today's terminus building dates from 1964. It is small - a station master's office, a waiting area, passenger toilets. Across from the passenger area is the former goods shed, which has had several lives. For years it held goods stock. Then it became a small museum and housed the 'Royal Trailer' No. 59. Now it is The Shed, a youth club, still connected to the rails. The traction poles around the station are painted maroon, matching the station's livery; everywhere else on the Manx Electric Railway the poles are the standard deep green. It is the kind of small variation that railway enthusiasts notice and townspeople barely register. At the far end of the yard is the large car shed, where the service cars sleep at night. That shed had its own museum period too, operated by the Isle of Man Railway Society, with three tramcars from the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway and the locomotive and carriage from the long-vanished Queen's Pier Tramway. When the museum closed, the exhibits were relocated and the shed returned to railway work.

The Manx Electric Railway is part of why people come to the Isle of Man. From mid-March to October a tramcar leaves Douglas Derby Castle every hour and takes 75 minutes to reach Ramsey, winding up the eastern coast through Onchan, climbing past cliffs and glens, stopping at Laxey where you can change for the Snaefell Mountain Railway and ride to the summit. The Manx Electric opened in 1893 and 1894 and has been running ever since. The motor cars and trailers are wooden, varnished, slightly creaking, lit by warm bulbs that flicker on tight curves. You sit on slatted bench seats next to people you do not know. Outside the window the Irish Sea slides past on one side and the green walls of glens close in on the other. By the time you arrive at Ramsey, it is hard to remember which century you are in.

There was a chapter in the recent past that almost lost the station. In October 2016 a temporary terminus was opened across the road, and the old station's tracks were used only for occasional carriage storage. The original building sat half-mothballed for almost a decade. Then in 2024 regular passenger services were extended back to the original station, and the temporary stop was closed. The gravity shunt happens at the original platform again. The maroon poles hold up the original overhead. The youth club next door, where the goods shed used to be, watches the trams arrive and leave just as the goods stock used to. Not everywhere puts its old station back into service after a decade away. Ramsey did.