CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE IOWSR

THIS publication follows the story of half a century of railway preservation on the Isle of Wight on a year-by-year basis, interspersed with personal recollections from many of the people involved.

Well illustrated with attractive photographs throughout, appropriately, the line’s flagship locomotive adorns the cover –‘O2’ 0-4-4-T No. W24 Calbourne.

After an introduction, the organisation’s origin at