RP03 - The Isle of Wight Railway - 40 Years of Preservation

Author: Dave Walker and Terry Hastings
Format: 210 x 202mm, Softback
Pages: 72pp - 135 colour, 23 mono illustrations
ISBN 978-1903016-09-1
Price: £9.95

Synopsis: The railways of the Isle of Wight have always held an attraction for the people who visited the island as, right down to the end, they remained a microcosm of the way railways had looked all over Britain during the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras. Small tank engines and non-articulated coaching stock, tiny picturesque stations, and stunning rural countryside as the lines meandered their way down to attractive holiday destinations.

Holiday-makers and locals alike all loved the Wight railways, and then one day it all came to an end...

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