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The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is a heritage railway on the Isle of Wight. The railway passes through 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (9 km) of countryside from Smallbrook Junction [1] to Wootton station, [2] passing through the small village of Havenstreet, where the line has a station, headquarters and a depot. At Smallbrook Junction, the steam railway ...
This list of museums on the Isle of Wight, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is located in Havenstreet, running trains throughout the summer and Christmas seasons between Wootton and Smallbrook. The Train Story museum provides tourists with a history of the Island's railways.
Number & Name Description History & Current Status Livery Date Photograph Operational; No. W24 Calbourne [1]: LSWR O2 Class 0-4-4 T: W24 was built with remaining 59 engines in the class at Nine Elms Locomotive Works, first working at Fratton and Exeter before falling into the hands of the Southern Railway, who moved her to the Island in 1925, along with 22 other 02s to replace the older ...
In Oxfordshire, Didcot Railway Centre will be marking the occasion with GWR Prairie 4144, which will be in steam on 1 January. On the Isle of Wight, special new year trains will join in the ...
View history; Tools. Tools. ... The National Railway Museum, York is the largest railway museum in the United Kingdom ... Hollycombe Steam Collection; Isle of Wight ...
It opened in 1875 [1] and was an intermediate stop on (successively) the Ryde and Newport Railway, Isle of Wight Central Railway, Southern Railway [2] and British Rail-being renamed Havenstreet in 1958. [3] It closed on 21 February 1966 [4] but re-opened as the headquarters of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway in 1971.
The island also has a steam-operated heritage railway, the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. This connects with the Island Line at Smallbrook Junction , and was part of the former Ryde to Newport line. In the 1950s and 1960s, and before the Beeching Report , the island enjoyed a comprehensive network based on a triangle of lines connecting Ryde ...