The Isle of Wight Railways

This is a new softback edition of the book first published in 2007 which was the fifth volume in the authors' series on the railways of the Isle of Wight. The book begins with the formation of the Southern Railway in 1923 and the acquisition of 55 miles of track, a pier at Ryde and two ferry routes to the mainland and how it was transformed from a disparate group of lines into an integrated network with greatly improved stations, locomotives and rolling stock. Wartime shortages and neglect were only partly overcome before Nationalisation in 1948 and the start of a lengthy period of decline. There in an eight-page addendum to the new edition with additional research discovered since publication of the original book.