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I seem to be at a loose end at present; and feel a bit uncomfortably, that I'm rather a one-trick-pony with my fascination with things narrow-gauge. However: in World War I, many "enemy aliens" resident in Britain, were interned on the Isle of Man. This was not a happy situation, and they underwent many privations; but -- railway enthusiasts among them might have got some consolation, from their ordeal's having involved their travelling over a short-lived, "purpose-built", and altogether rare, stretch of line. Please locate and identify, said stretch of line.
 
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Am having trouble thinking of any hint re this question -- feel that it's basically one where "you either know it, or you don't". I'll leave it open for a bit longer; but see in the end, likely "putting it out of its misery".
 
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"Quittin' time", I think. Very much the chief internment camp (a huge one) in this operation, was at Knockaloe, a little way south-west of Peel. There was constructed, a short branch off the Isle of Man Railway's Douglas -- Peel line, to serve the establishment: as the Wiki article puts it, "to transport internees, other persons, food and supplies to and from the camp". The branch was a little over a mile long: junction, facing toward Peel (i.e. reversal necessary if running from / to Douglas or St. John's), was on the outskirts of Peel; line climbed steeply for a little over half a mile in a southerly direction, then turned west and, shortly, entered the camp. The branch operated from September 1915 to October 1920; was subsequently dismantled.

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Probably, utterly wrong here: but one of that line's stations was North Grimston; and there's a character in Oliver Twist called Mr. Grimwig.
 
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Old Oliver again -- the line's passenger service was locally nicknamed the "Malton Dodger"; and Oliver's mentor-and-partner-in-crime was of course the Artful "of that ilk".
 
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Calthrop said:
Old Oliver again -- the line's passenger service was locally nicknamed the "Malton Dodger"; and Oliver's mentor-and-partner-in-crime was of course the Artful "of that ilk".
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Good guess but not what I was thinking of, the connection isn't to do with any of Dickens stories
 
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Would have to try "much Googling"; and supposing success therein, disqualify myself vis-a-vis this "Railway General Knowledge" question...
 
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I keep on trying -- his wife was born at one of the places with a station on the line concerned??
 
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