New-look Calbourne back in IoWSR service

THE Isle of Wight Steam Railway’s flagship locomotive – Adams ‘O2’ 0-4-4T No. W24 Calbourne – is back in traffic on the reopened railway following overhaul. It was only fitting that No. W24, sporting its newly applied postwar Malachite green with ‘Sunshine’ lettering, worked the line’s reopening trains on April 12 in this, the IoWSR’s 50th anniversary year. It is pictured passing through Rowlands Wood near Havenstreet during a preopening volunteer refresher day on March 31.