wightwanderer
WightWanderer
YouTube channel dedicated to walking & documenting the fascinating history of the Isle of Wight.
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Medievil Lightouses & Shipwrecks - A walk up St Catherine's Down & a delve into the history of the landscape 馃懀
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We take a look at the infamous Michal Morey murder case in the 1st Episode of the new series | Daek Side Of The Wight
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W20 gets the all clear at Ryde St Johns with a Southbound train - July 1964.
Cr. Ron Fisher
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Rusty Rails 馃殏
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In the final episode of the series we trace the Ventnor West Railway closed in 1952, and take a look inside the abandoned St Lawrence Railway Tunnel 馃懟
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W31 Chale sits at Sandown with a train for Ventnor on the 28th December 1966, 3 days before the end of steam on the Isle of Wight.
Cr: George Woods
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W29 Alverstone runs around it's train at Ventnor on the 25th April 1964.
St Boniface down is in the background.
Photo credit: D. Christie.
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Lost in time.
A Colourized photo of terrier W11, seen at Newport Station in 1910 with a train for Cowes.
Unknown original photographer.
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W35 Freshwater puts on a show, as it pulls out of Ryde St Johns with a southbound train in the Summer of 65'.
Unknown Photographer.
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Into the mist.
W29 Alverstone leaves Yarmouth station for Freshwater in the early 50's.
Cr: Offtherails
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18th of May 1963 & W30 Shorwell is waiting to depart from Cowes Station, a site now completely lost to time.
Credit: KDH Archive.
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The latest episode of WightWanderer's Disused Railways of the Isle of Wight is now available to stream on YouTube.
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The latest episode of Disused Railways of the IOW will be airing on YouTube tomorrow at 2pm. Here's a link to our channel 馃懀
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W31 Chale is seen near Shanklin in 1963.
Unknown Photgrapher.
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Waiting for the ghost train.
Ventnor Station c.1965.
Unknown Photographer.
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