 Large quantities of ash and spoil were regularly emptied here to shore up the embankment and it is noticeable that although the bank remains today it has dropped by several feet in the intervening years since the railway closed; it remains as part of the island's coastal footpath today.The first and smaller of two viaducts on the Manx Northern Railway and was crossed by means of a lattice work frame by the passing trains.Today the stanchions remain but the framework was removed in 1975, the railway having closed in 1968.