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  2. List of Isle of Wight Steam Railway locomotives and rolling ...

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    She returned to steam in 2006 and ownership was later passed on to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. The locomotive put in a very reliable and high mileage performance during its ten-year boiler ticket, which expired in December 2015. The locomotive is undergoing a ten-yearly overhaul. [4] In 2022, she completed her overhaul and was returned to ...

  3. Isle of Wight Steam Railway - Wikipedia

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    However a small group of rail enthusiasts formed the Wight Locomotive Society and raised funds to preserve one of the last steam locomotives, W24 Calbourne, and a number of the remaining carriages. Then, in 1971, the Isle of Wight Railway Co. Ltd. was formed to buy the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (2 km) length of track between Wootton and Havenstreet ...

  4. List of Isle of Wight-based O2 Class locomotives - Wikipedia

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    Below are the names and numbers of the 23 LSWR O2 class locomotives that were transferred to the Isle of Wight. Another successful publicity campaign by the Southern Railway gave them names from 1925 onwards, representing places in the Island.

  5. LSWR O2 class - Wikipedia

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    The LSWR O2 class is a class of 0-4-4T steam locomotive designed for the London and South Western Railway by William Adams. Sixty were constructed during the late nineteenth century. They were also the last steam engines to work on the Isle of Wight, with the final two being withdrawn in 1967. One has been preserved and is operational.

  6. LB&SCR A1X Class W11 Newport - Wikipedia

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    The Isle of Wight Steam Railway announced in November 2007 that they had placed an order with Israel Newton for a new boiler for W11, the cost of which is believed to be in the region of £70,000. The new boiler arrived in 2010 and after steady progress W11 returned to steam in 2014.

  7. LSWR O2 Class W24 Calbourne - Wikipedia

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    The locomotive was transferred to the Isle of Wight on 26 April 1925 as the island's locomotive stock needed major modernisation, it was re-numbered W24 and given the name Calbourne, after a village on the island. The locomotive was fitted with Westinghouse air brake equipment to allow it to haul island passenger carriages, and had an extension ...

  8. LB&SCR A1X Class W8 Freshwater - Wikipedia

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    Having arrived in June 1979, it returned to steam on 21 June 1981 after a rapid overhaul. Performing with ease the task that it was designed for so long ago, it has been a stalwart member of the locomotive fleet, and a brand new boiler commissioned in 1998 for W8 Freshwater, built at a cost of £35,000 by Israel Newton of Bradford, demonstrated the commitment of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway ...

  9. Railways on the Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    A1 'Terrier' class locomotive Freshwater in Southern Railway livery at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. This locomotive was transferred to the island in 1913 by the FYN . In 1889, the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway (FYN) opened its 12-mile line from Newport to Freshwater, the only line to run west of Newport.