Ramsey Station was built as the headquarters of the Manx Northern Railway Co., Ltd., and served as the terminus of their line to St. John’s, being constructed in 1879.  The structure here was unique on the railway being of Italianate style and single storey with refreshment room waiting room, booking office, newsstand and office accommodation, a long canopy along the trackside elevation serving the main departure and arrival platform.

A stone-built locomotive shed stood adjacent to this, and a corrugated iron carriage shed as well as a goods shed in the year to the rear of this; a brick built water tower was located outside the locomotive shed and later a bay line added to the southern side of the year, being perennially known as the “new road” for many years.  The line stretched out towards Lezayre Station protected by a semaphore signal, all points were operated manually.

An extension along the quayside was also a feature of this station, being a spur connected at the northern extremity of the yard, a cattle dock and loading platform was also provided and saw use until the final days of the railway, the oil tanker trains still serving the site after the station has closed to passengers.  The station remained in constant use until this closure, the layout and buildings changing little over many years.

The site was razed to the ground in 1978 and redeveloped as Ramsey Bakery which itself closed its doors for the last time in 2022; there is now nothing in the northern town to remind people of its railway heritage, save for the road still being named Station road and part of a boundary wall surviving.  The accompanying selection of images show the general forlorn look the station had for many years, and show it after closure when nature began reclaiming the site.