Union Mills railway station

Union Mills Railway Station (Manx: Stashoon Raad Yiarn Wyllin Doo Aah) was an intermediate stop on the Isle of Man Railway; it served the village of Union Mills in the Isle of Man and was a stopping place on a line that ran between Douglas and Peel.

The village's general store (now a Spar shop) was at one time run by the Bee Gees mother, a blue plaques on the wall denotes this, installed in 2001.

From 1905-1907 it boasted a long winding full-height platform on the "up" side serviced trains westward bound; originally fitted with minimal passenger facilities, including a diminutive timber sentry box for the pointsman at the easterly end, it was later fitted with a long passing loop for trains and a variety of cattle pens and sidings, feeding off the westward platform, though in an easterly direction.

It lies beneath the main road and was accessed via a set of steps, to a wooden station building and platform area.

It fell out of use after the second world war when the next station at Crosby was favoured for the passing of services, although remained in periodic use until the closure of the railway.

The station was the site of a head-on collision between two trains, this largely being put down to the inexperience of the new operator of the railway, Lord Ailsa; No.10 G.H.

Other locations on the island were also used for filming including the village itself, Castletown and the folk museum at Cregneash, all doubling for Ireland, despite the triskelion on the bank at the approach path being clearly visible in one scene.

Other notable filming that took place here includes the work of renowned railway photographer Ivo Peters who visited the island to record its transport networks in 1961, 1963 and 1968 and favoured this location for its picturesque backdrop of rhododendrons and other flora.

The Railway Inn in 2003, also known as The Grapes just above the site of the station.
Built for the opening of the line in 1873, No.3 Pender which was involved in the 1925 accident, now in the Science Museum in Manchester as a sectionalised exhibit to illustrate the workings of a steam locomotive; it left the island in 1979 and was not selected for return to use owing to the damage sustained in the accident, having last operated in 1962.
Deborah Kerr, star of the film
Crane No.2 displayed on the site of the station