Qualla: The Level Railway Station https://qualla.com/the-level-railway-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-level-railway-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Level Railway Station https://qualla.com/the-level-railway-station The Level Railway Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-level-railway-station/ Photo credit Dan Karran, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Level is named after a hole in the ground that nobody can find anymore. Somewhere in the hills above this quiet request stop on the Isle of Man Railway, in country between Colby and Port St Mary, ran the adit of one of the Ballacorkish mine workings - the horizontal entry tunnel that miners called a level, the word that gave its name to the road, the road that gave its name to the railway crossing, and the crossing that gave its name to the seasonally-operated halt where a one-carriage-length platform meets a small lodge painted in uniform maroon. The mine is long gone. The level remains.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-level-railway-station-wp/gcse-the-level-railway-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Level Railway Station: Where the Adit Was https://qualla.com/the-level-railway-station/ Photo credit Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mining was once the dominant industry across this part of the Rushen sheading, the southern administrative division of the Isle of Man. Lead and zinc came out of these hills in the 19th century, hauled to the coast by the same line that now carries summer tourists in Victorian ca...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-level-railway-station-wp/gcse-the-level-railway-station-where-the-adit-was.mp3 0:06 2 full The Level Railway Station: 1874: The Crossing Becomes a Halt https://qualla.com/the-level-railway-station/ Photo credit Manx James, CC0. The Isle of Man Railway opened its Douglas-to-Port Erin line on 1 August 1874. At The Level the new line crossed a small road between the main Colby-to-Port Erin road and the coast road past Kentraugh House. Officially this was just a crossing - not a station - but locals immedia...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-level-railway-station-wp/gcse-the-level-railway-station-1874-the-crossing-becomes-a-halt.mp3 0:06 3 full The Level Railway Station: Names It Was Called https://qualla.com/the-level-railway-station/ Photo credit Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0. Almost no station on the Isle of Man Railway has been called more different things. Colby Level - in reference to the nearby village, and persistently misleading because The Level is actually in the parish of Rushen, not Colby. Level, on its own. Level (Rushen), to distinguish it...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-level-railway-station-wp/gcse-the-level-railway-station-names-it-was-called.mp3 0:06 4 full The Level Railway Station: Manual to Automatic https://qualla.com/the-level-railway-station/ Photo credit Padyer at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The 2001 all-island sewerage works, which forced a complete relay of the railway permanent way, brought The Level into the modern era of crossings. Automatic lifting barriers replaced the manually operated gates in 2002 - matching changes happening across the line, with only a co...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/the-level-railway-station-wp/gcse-the-level-railway-station-manual-to-automatic.mp3 0:06 5 full The Level Railway Station: Listed and Repainted https://qualla.com/the-level-railway-station/ Photo credit Grantltaylor, CC BY-SA 4.0. In February 2013 volunteers from the Isle of Man Steam Railway Supporters' Association - the principal volunteer body supporting the line - took on the restoration of the crossing lodge and its environs. They cleaned, repaired, refitted period signage, and used the project to sta...

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