North Western Railway

The North Western Railway was first created in 1914 after a government-funded joining of the Island of Sodor's standard gauge railways for coastal defence. The railways concerned were the Sodor and Mainland, which operated from Ballahoo to Kirkronan from 1853 to 1914, the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge, which operated from Tidmouth to Elsbridge from 1883 to 1914, the Wellsworth and Suddery line, which operated from 1870 to 1914, and the Crosby-Brendam. In 1948, it became the North Western Region of British Railways, but this term was never used as the railway kept its operating independence. With Privatisation in the early 1990s, it officially became the North Western Railway.

The railway's motto is "Nil unquam simile", which, translated from Latin, means "There's nothing quite like it!"