Isle of Man Railway level crossings and points of interest

[2] The first level crossing on the south line, remaining ungated until the addition of automated barriers in 2001, it served the access road to an isolation hospital of the same name, demolished and replaced with a youth correctional facility in recent times.

Some 500 yards south, a request stop was once established here for the adjacent rifle range, used by pupils of King William's College in Castletown.

The crossing was provided with a small hut similar in style to the one at Mill Road further along the line and this was retained though out of use, being constructed of slatted timber with corrugated iron roof until its demolition in 2017.

This crossing, despite only serving a nearby farm, is typical of the rural community and features a large (now derelict) gatekeeper's two storey house, once alleged to have been home to "Blackcurrant Jack", somewhat of a local legend who was once employed as crossing keeper and used to walk the line collecting blackberries for making jam between the train services.

The original crossing keeper's house, which had been derelict for many years, was demolished in February 2018 as part of a new development taking place near the railway line, a replica was later built on the seaward side and running-in boards added in 2023, though this is not a stopping place; on the landward side work began in 2019 on constructing the so called "Hobbit House", this remains incomplete at May 2024.

54°06′00″N 4°36′43″W / 54.100°N 4.612°W / 54.100; -4.612 (Ballahick); it was furnished with a small timber shelter with corrugated roof similar to that which has been restored at Mill Road, though this was removed in 1980 and replaced with a modern shed which itself was demolished when the crossing became fitted with barriers, initially controller from Ballasalla Station though now automated.

The crossing serves a private dwelling which is clearly visible from the passing train, and is a large mill (now defunct) and farmhouse.

A temporary station was established here in 2012 when the railway operated out of season school trains during a bus drivers' dispute; the temporary platform was made from scaffolding and a marquee erected as a waiting area; the site was cleared in 2013 and stands close to the marshalling area of the Billown Circuit of the Southern 100 motorcycle races.

The crossing lodge is larger than many others on the railway and was substantial enough to have provided residential accommodation for the keeper in the past, effectively being twice the size of the original structure.

The small lodge here was restored by the volunteers of the Isle of Man Steam Railway Supporters' Association in 2013 at which time it was fitted with bilingual running in board (now also reading Kiare Raaidyn), new fencing and the whole area smartened up considerably.

races, being a short walk from the popular observation point at Ballacraine Crossroads, where scenes in the George Formby film No Limit!

A large rustic watermill which is passed by trains and remains in situ today although out of use for many years; this was a popular place for the railway to use for commercial postcards and several were produced featuring the mill and its associated bridge.

This area is also cited as the reason for the railway acquiring a turntable to turn only the coaches, to equalise the weathering of paintwork at this exposed point.

The halt was only short-lived and, while recorded in Manx Northern Railway documents, its exact location is not known for certain other than as being adjacent to a level crossing.

Prior to this it had been nothing more than a farm crossing which boasted its own lodge, still in existence today; the "Wild Life Park" was established here in late 1967 and the railway installed an ad hoc halt here the following year, with temporary platform area and fencing.

The embankment on which it sat is sometimes visible in a nearby field however.54°18′54″N 4°31′01″W / 54.315°N 4.517°W / 54.315; -4.517 (Ballavolley Halt) Site of former oil siding (1968-1969) found at 54°19′23″N 4°24′07″W / 54.323°N 4.402°W / 54.323; -4.402 (Milntown) used during the short-lived experiment to transport oil in three tankers between Ramsey and Peel during the period in which Lord Ailsa operated the railway; this siding has the distinction of being used for the final stock movements on the north line when No.

The track at this point was so sharply curved that a locomotive could not enter the siding, and bogie runners were placed between it and the oil wagons to allow access to the facility.