Steam on the Footplate | W24 Calbourne

Join me on the footplate this week as we celebrate 100 years since the iconic steam locomotive W24 Calbourne first arrived on the Isle of Wight.

Part of the Railway 200 celebrations this year.

☀️ If you would like to join our Members club you can do so by clicking this link:
   / @wightwanderer  

☕️ We also have a brand new Ko-fi page:
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Big thank you to the IWSR + Tony & Rupert for allowing me to join them on the footplate. 🙏

Music:

"Alex Productions - Walking Home" is under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommon...​
 / alexproductionsmusic

Other music is composed by WightWanderer for the channel itself: copyright: jacksingletonmusic 

Images: 

WLS stock at Newport station looking South - Roger Cornfoot - Wiki images - CC BY SA 2.0

Newport Station photograph looking north after closure: John Hulse
/Disusedrailways.org

Calbourne as LSWR 209 - Unknown Photographer

WLS picture at Whippingham stood in front of smoke box: IWSR collection

02's lined up at Newport for Scrapping: I.E.Whitlam/extract from book: Locomotives of the Isle of Wight Railways by Cooper/Faulkner/Maycock/Silsbury.

Portrait of William Adams: Public Domain


Archive footage: Public Domain & VHS

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