Virtual celebration of Wight steam 50th is big online hit
Feb 16, 2021
2 minutes
By Robin Jones
JOHN FAULKNER/IOWSR
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J ARTHUR DIXON/IOWSR
AROUND 80,000 people watched the start of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway’s 50th anniversary celebrations on January 24 – but very few of them were on the island for the occasion.
With the UK in lockdown and local coronavirus infection rates rising – before Christmas, the island was one of only three areas of England designated Tier 1, the
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