Santon Railway Station - Building

Building

The station is the last on the line to still boast its original 1874 building; however, similar structures were in place but demolished at Ballasalla in 1985 and Colby in 1980. The building is of simple style, being of timber construction with corrugated iron roofing, painted in an orange and red style unchanged for many years. It includes station master accommodation and porters rooms as well as a passenger waiting shelter recessed from the running lines. In 1985 the station building was cosmetically restored at the expense of the now-defunct Isle Of Man Railway Society and attention was given to the wooden slatting that form its exterior walls; a better form of wooden window shutters were also added at this time, the previous incarnations having been a somewhat crude affair. Upon completion of the project a large sign board denoting the improvements was erected over the porters' room window, but this was later removed when the group became defunct. In the intervening years no further remedial work was carried out and the condition of the building deteriorated considerably until it received further attention in 2002 as part of the redevelopment of the station when the entire infrastructure of the railway was overhauled.