A large part of Ramsey faced a power cut following what Manx Utilities said was a ’significant equipment failure’ at the substation at Lezayre Park.

Some 1,200 homes and businesses including supermarkets were affected across the town after power went down at just before 6.10pm on Thursday.

Engineers were deployed immediately. Emergency services were also deployed as a precautionary measure.

Supplies for the majority of affected customers were restored just over an hour later when power was re-routed around the affected substation.

Support and advice was given to vulnerable customers, the utility said. An investigation into the causes of the failure has been launched.

Works began the next day on repairing the substation and returning the network to normal.

Manx Utilities said its team acted quickly to return supplies back to normal as a ’matter of urgency’.

Chairman Dr Alex Allinson took to Twitter to thank all those who dealt with the outage.