They wore a standard livery of maroon dash and side panels complete with gold trim and fleet lettering front and rear, with white uprights, varnished toastrack and knifeboard seats and the lettering of the company across longitudinal; boards on each side; it is in this guise that the sole remaining car is preserved today, complete with characteristic striped curtains.

The tramway's sheds and workshops were located mid-way along the line at Little Ness, together with the power station for generating the electricity but this was filled in and is now a car park.

The roadway has been closed for several years owing to a number of serious landslides, but in the 1960s the local authority of Douglas Corporation attempted to rejuvenate the area by introducing a bus service on the coastal route.

The route of this railway provides views of the Irish Sea, and forms part of the Isle of Man's coastal footpath Raad ny Foillan (Way of the Gull), created in 1986.

1 was rescued from the line's isolated depot and, after a period of storage on the island, the car was moved in 1956 to London, where it was restored and put on display in the British Transport Museum.