The old railway line from Peel to Douglas will be completely open for TT week.

Contractors have been working on the ’heritage trail’ but are standing down from tomorrow (Friday) for the week.

The trail between Peel and Crosby is now open outside working hours from this evening.

Site working hours are 8am-5.30pm Monday to Friday and 8am-2pm on Saturday.

During normal working hours outside TT week, the situation is:

Peel to Glenfaba Bridge: Open

Glenfaba Bridge to Station Road, St John’s: Closed during working hours.

St John’s, Station Road to Coolingel Bridge, Crosby: Open

Coolingel Bridge, Crosby, to Memorial Playing Fields, Crosby: Closed during working hours.

The Department of Infrastructure and contractor NK Construction have urged the public to respect the site and the workers undertaking the improvements of the trail.

Sections of the route are closed for safety reasons while the work takes place and entering a closed highway is an offence and liable to prosecution.

The contractor has reported that people have entered closed sections of the track on a number of occasions, resulting in near misses with construction plant and workers being subjected to abuse.

Closure signs have been vandalised and discarded, and pegs marking areas of sensitive / protected habitat have also been removed.