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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 ...
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.
It was based at Fratton before moving on to Exeter. It passed into Southern Railway ownership in 1923. 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 ...
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 They were also the last steam engines to work on the Isle of Wight, with the final two being withdrawn in 1967.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.
She was finally returned to steam in 1989, progress having been hampered by lack of manpower, finance and workshop facilities. Having proved to be a powerful, economical locomotive, more than capable of hauling heavily loaded trains on the steeply graded IW Steam Railway, she was withdrawn from service on 24 August 2002 for overhaul.
List of Isle of Wight Steam Railway locomotives and rolling stock; List of Isle of Wight-based O2 Class locomotives; LSWR O2 class; P. Portsmouth and Ryde Joint ...
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Class E1 0-6-0 T: Isle of Wight Steam Railway: Built in 1877 at Brighton Works. Renumbered B110 by the SR in 1923. Withdrawn from service in 1927 and sold to Cannock and Rugeley Colliery Company and the boiler replaced with a WG Bagnall boiler. It was renumbered CRC No. 9 by using an inverted No. 6 number ...
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 ...