The Bungalow tramway-crossing was part of the Highland Course and Four Inch Course used for the Gordon Bennett Trial and Tourist Trophy automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1904 and 1922.
The Bungalow is part of the Snaefell Mountain Course used since 1911 for the Isle of Man TT and from 1923 for the Manx Grand Prix Races.
[3] The Bungalow Hotel was demolished during the winter of 1958[4][5] and replaced with a small concrete shelter designed by D.W.Calder.
[6] This shelter was in turn demolished in 2002 and replaced by the current Bungalow Station for the Snaefell Railway.
The former Ministry of Defence buildings at the Bungalow, a former ROTOR radar station, were previously occupied by Murray's Motorcycle Museum which closed, but has reopened at a new site at Santon in the south-east of the island.