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Sea Lion Rocks railway station
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Sea Lion Rocks (Manx: Stashoon Chreggyn Raun Chleayshagh) is a railway station and outer terminus of the Groudle Glen Railway in the Isle of Man. It served as the outer terminus from 1896 until 1939 and again from 1992 to date.
The terminus is situated some three-quarters of a mile away from the other end of the line. It opened as the outer terminus of the line in 1896, at which point the building was erected including tea rooms, bake house, fish store and seasonal living quarters for the staff. The zoo, created in the adjacent cove, had been a feature from 1893 and was the reason for the building of the line. The station closed at the outbreak of the Second World War; although the railway reopened in 1950, a landslip during the war years prevented the line being re-opened this far, and it was not until the restored line was extended in 1992 that the station re-opened, later receiving a replica station building in 2000.
Over the years, there were several additions to the buildings and structures, and very few photographs of any quality are in existence; those that do exist show a main building with several smaller and somewhat ramshackle huts surrounding it. It is unclear when the station building was demolished, but it is understood to have still been there in the early 1960s. By the time the line was resurrected in 1982 it had vanished completely. In the winter of 1991 major earthworks were carried out so that the line could once more terminate at Sea Lion Rocks.
On 23 July 1992 the line was fully reopened as the line's terminus by James Crookall Cain (Speaker of the House of Keys, the lower branch of the island's parliament) who hammered into place the final burnished pandrol rail fastener. It was another eight years before any form of building was erected, leading to the volunteers nicknaming the area "Soil & Rocks" as opposed to "Sea Lion Rocks". The building that now stands on the site of the original was built directly on top of foundations discovered at the time and is largely faithful to the original, based on postcard views of the time.
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