Southern Way Special Issue No. 20: Isle of Wight Railways in the 1950s

by Richard C. Long

Viewed from over seven decades later the Isle of Wight at the start of the 1950s might at first glance appear to have been experiencing a golden age of railways. A real-life Island of Sodor where Victorian steam locomotives crisscrossed the Island from Cowes in the north to Ventnor in the south, and from Freshwater in the west to Bembridge in the east. Even the smallest of villages could claim its own station and the only cloud on the horizon was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800352956
• ISBN13: 9781800352957
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Crecy Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages