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.

  
71 Wight Locomotive Society Calbourne In Steam THE WIGHT LOCOMOTIVE SOCIETY WME 1





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