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    Aug 20, 2021 6 minutes

    REVIEW OF THE MONTH

    Locomotives of the Isle of Wight Railways

    T. P. Cooper, J. C. H. Faulkner, R. J. Maycock and R. A. Silsbury Crecy Publishing, 1A Ringway Trading Estate, Shadowmoss Road, Manchester M22 5LH.

    Tel: 0161 499 0024.

    Website: www.crecy.co.uk

    Email: enquiries@crecy.co.uk

    Description: Hardback, 286mm x 220mm, 320pp

    ISBN: 9781 91080 9877

    Price £25.00

    The late historian Dick Riley gives his own verdict on the previously definitive history of the Isle of Wight’s locomotive fleet by Don Bradley, a doyen of the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society: “He did all this wonderful research, but then invented the bits he didn’t know and blew the integrity of the whole book”.

    Forty years on, we now have the more considered (and accurate) efforts of four dedicated authors (and others) with immense local knowledge who seem to have left no stone unturned with their study of a complex subject. To colourise a few images of engines that disappeared almost century

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