The history of Manx telecommunications starts in 1859, when the Isle of Man Electric Telegraph Company was formed on the island with the intention of connecting across the island by telegraph, and allowing messages to be sent onwards to the UK.

* The horse-drawn trams that run along the promenade from the Sea Terminal to the Manx Electric Railway station from spring to early autumn.

The Manx Electric Railway survives after over 100 years of service using mainly original equipment.

Laxey lies on the Manx Electric Railway line.

There are two Manx Electric Railway line stopping places in Onchan.

Ramsey hosts the northern terminus for the Manx Electric Railway and is the start of the mountain section of the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT and Manx Grand Prix motorcycle races held annually on the island.

Image: Ramsey Station Manx Electric Railway. jpg | Ramsey station on the Manx Electric Railway with train for Douglas

Among the heritage railways on the Isle of Man, at least the Manx Electric Railway qualifies as a heritage tramway as well.

The route runs along the seafront promenade for approximately, from a southern terminus at the Victoria Pier, adjacent to the Sea Terminal to a northern terminus at Derby Castle, the southern terminus of the Manx Electric Railway, where the workshops and sheds are also located.

In 1882, Lightfoot sold the line to Isle of Man Tramways Ltd, which came later to be known as Isle of Man Tramways & Electric Power Co. Ltd. ( IoMT & EP ) and also owned the Manx Electric Railway.

The Manx Electric Railway is an electric inter-urban tramway connecting Douglas, Laxey and Ramsey in the Isle of Man.

The tramway was sold by the liquidator to the newly formed Manx Electric Railway Co. Ltd., which took over the services in 1902.

By the late 1950s the Manx Electric Railway Co. Ltd. was itself in financial difficulties, and in 1957 the company and its assets were acquired by the Isle of Man Government ( they carried out a similar move two decades later to save the Isle of Man Railway ) at which point a nationalisation livery of green and white was applied to some trams and trailers for a limited time though this was unpopular and later dropped.

A government Board was formed to manage the line and the Snaefell Mountain Railway, and still does so after various changes of title from the original Manx Electric Railway Board later becoming the Isle Of Man Passenger Transport Board, and it is now operated under the banner heading of Isle Of Man Heritage Railways ( the word heritage being added in 2009 ).

-The story of the Manx Electric Railway since 1956., Manx Electric Railway Society website, accessed 24 November 2006

* Caledonia, Manx Northern No. 4, later Isle of Man Railway No. 15 Steam Locomotive, built in 1885

15 Caledonia originally built in 1885 for the Manx Northern Railway as no.

2178 ) for the Manx Northern Railway.

* Boyd, J. I. C., ( 1996 ), The Isle of Man Railway: Volume 3, An Outline History of the Isle of Man Railway including the Manx Northern Railway and The Foxdale Railway, The Oakwood Press, ISBN 0-85361-479-2

Beltane was formerly spelt Bealtuinn in Scottish Gaelic ; in Manx it is spelt Boaltinn or Boaldyn.

It was based on a patent of 1883 by James Cleminson, and was once popular on narrow-gauge rolling stock, e. g. on the Isle of Man and Manx Northern Railways.

The first Manx translation of the Book of Common Prayer was made by Bishop John Phillips of Sodor and Man in 1610.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

In 1889 George Gillmore, formerly an electrician for the GPO's Manx telegraph operations, was granted a licence by the Postmaster General to operate the Isle of Man's first telephone service.

In 1922, the General Post Office offered to sell the island's telephone service to the Manx government, but the offer was not taken up.

The LANIS-1 cable was damaged 600 m off Port Grenaugh on 27 November 2006, causing loss of the link and resulting in temporary Internet access issues for some Manx customers whilst it was awaiting repair.

On 17 November 2001 Manx Telecom became part of mmO < sub > 2 </ sub > following the demerger of BT Wireless's operations from BT Group, and the company was owned by Telefónica.

On 4 June 2010 Manx Telecom was sold by Telefónica to UK private equity investor HgCapital ( who were buying the majority stake ), alongside telecoms management company CPS Partners

It was laid in 1999 between Blackpool and Douglas as part of the Isle of Man to England Interconnector which connects the Manx electricity system to the UK's National Grid.

Richmond Hill was decommissioned after the close of 405 line broadcasts, although the 200ft tower remained in use for radio with Manx Radio transmitting on 96. 9 MHz and then 97. 3 MHz until 1989.

* Ian Anderson-Prominent Manx politician who was a long-serving member of the Tynwald.

The English name " puffin " was originally applied to the Manx Shearwater which ( in 1652 ) was known as the " Manks Puffin ".

This was furthermore the time the Air Kruise cross-Channel services, as well as all Dragon Airways, Lancashire Aircraft Corporation and Manx Airlines operations from Newcastle upon Tyne, Blackpool and the Isle of Man were transferred to Silver City's new Northern Division to streamline BAS's fragmented airline operations.

Her mother, Sophia Jane Craine, was descended from the Manx people of the Isle of Man and counted among her ancestors men accused of social unrest and slander.

Pankhurst's Manx heritage was a possible source of her political consciousness, especially since the Isle of Man was the first country to grant women the right to vote in national elections, in 1881.

An early example was the Pete Manx series by Henry Kuttner and Arthur K. Barnes ( sometimes writing together and sometimes separately, under the house pen-name of Kelvin Kent ).

For example, one such conversion was a 1970 Manx 2 on a 1961 VW chassis.

In 1951 the Manx National Trust was established, which became Manx National Heritage.

" It was followed by The Doctor and other Poems ( 1887 ), The Manx Witch and other Poems ( 1889 ), and Old John and other Poems -- a volume mainly lyrical ( 1893 ).

* Manx FA Cup ( 18 ): 1891 – 92, 1892 – 93, 1893 – 94, 1895 – 96, 1899 – 00, 1900 – 01, 1904 – 05, 1906 – 07, 1907 – 08 1919 – 20, 1920 – 21, 1921 – 22, 1930 – 31, 1951 – 52, 1978 – 79, 1979 – 80, 1980 – 81, 2003 – 04

Programmes from the early festivals state that " Yn Cruinnaght Vanninagh Ashoonagh is held under the auspices of The World Manx Association and The Manx Society in commemoration of our great National Poet and with the object of preserving national sentiment.

The Manx Grand Prix is a separate motorcycle event for amateurs and private entrants that uses the same Snaefell Mountain Course in late August and early September.

This view has more recently been challenged by Nicholas Williams, who suggests that Manx is Gaelic pidginized by early contact with Norse, long before there was any English spoken in Man.