THE WIGHT LOCOMOTIVE
SOCIETY
RECORDS
The
Wight Locomotive Society was set up in late 1965 with the intention of
preserving a portion of the railways of that Isle of Wight, which were more or
less doomed to closure at that point. By 1971 an engine, 'Calbourne', had
been purchased, along with a few items of rolling stock and roughly a
mile-and-a-half of track, sufficient to start running trains and attracting
visitors. As part of its fund-raising drive the Society issued an EP of
recordings made of 'Calbourne' at various places. It came in a picture
cover, and had a catalogue number of WME-1. There doesn't appear to have
been a WME-2. Happily, the fund-raising was successful: the Wight
Locomotive Society evolved into the Isle of Wight Steam Railway and is still in
operation today. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
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