Not a tramway or a railway but never-the-less a most interesting little line with a long history & a remarkable survivor. The Falcon Cliff Hotel stands some 250 feet above the Central Promenade in Douglas. In 1887 a Cliff Lift was built to give better access to the hotel. The double-track 4′ 0″ gauge Incline Railway was dismantled in 1896 and re-erected at Port Soderick. A second Public-Lift was built in 1932 by William Wadsworth Ltd. (rebuilt in 1937 and converted from D.C. to A.C. operation in 1950). The Cliff Lift is an elevator with the passenger cabin being propelled in a steel channel on an incline of 60 degrees. It has been out of use for a number of years now but everything is still there today.
