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    ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

    Oct 15, 2021 3 minutes
    Photographs: Chris Leigh

    eturning to the theme of holidays – as we now seem to be seeing light at the end of the tunnel (and it’s hopefully not, as one song puts it, ‘the light of an oncoming train’) – the Isle of Wight is of course not the only British holiday isle worth a look for any self-respecting railway enthusiast. The Isle of Man, once the ‘go to’ destination for North West England, retains a lot of vintage steam action, albeit all narrow-gauge. It was of course immortalised (if that’s the right word) in song by

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