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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 ...
The British Rail Class 483 483007, named "Jess Harper," was transferred from the Island Line to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway in 2021 for static display in the carriage shed at Havenstreet Station. The train was originally built in 1940 as London Underground 1938 Stock .
Calbourne was acquired by the Wight Locomotive Society in 1967 as the flagship locomotive of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, which has been its permanent home ever since. Calbourne is the only surviving O2 locomotive, the remainder having been scrapped.
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 ...
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.
The Great Isle of Wight Train Robbery. London: The Railway Invigoration Society. OCLC 465874. Golden, Laurie (2011). Vectis Steam: The Last Years of Steam on the Isle of Wight. Hersham: Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-3642-0. Hay, Peter (1988). Steaming Through the Isle of Wight. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-56-7. Jacobs, Mike (2010).
W24 Calbourne was bought by the Wight Locomotive Society, which in 1971 moved its headquarters to Havenstreet and became the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. Calbourne was restored to operating condition, re-entering service in 1992, and had a further overhaul in 2010, hauling tourist trains over the line between Smallbrook Junction and Wootton. A ...
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.