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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 ...
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 They were also the last steam engines to work on the Isle of Wight, with the final two being withdrawn in 1967.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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Preserved 0-4-4T locomotives in the UK are SECR H class No. 263 on the Bluebell Railway, O2 class No. W24 'Calbourne' on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, Nos. 245 in the National Railway Museum and 53 (as BR 30053) on the Swanage Railway, Metropolitan Railway E Class No. 1 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, CR No.419 by the Scottish Railway ...
System map of the Isle of Wight Railway in 1900. The Isle of Wight Railway was a railway company on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom; it operated 14 miles (23 kilometres) of railway line between Ryde and Ventnor. It opened the first section of line from Ryde to Sandown in 1864, later extending to Ventnor in 1866. The Ryde station was at St ...