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Isle
of Wight Railway Pictures
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About
The Pictures
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This site contains some photographs
that I took at the IOWSR during 2001 and 2002, which I hope may be of some interest to other IOW railway enthusiasts. I have now scanned all of these, 75 in total. As I was rather disappointed with the quality of the first 45 scans (scanned using a cheap and cheerful Plustek scanner) I borrowed an Epson Perfection scanner for the remaining 30. Most pictures were taken with my rather aged Olympus Mju (the original version).The rest were taken with my a Panasonic APS. All of these pictures were taken during holidays and a daytrip to the Island, I consider them to be snapshots, so please don't expect too much in the way of artistic or technical merit! In case anyone is wondering about the appearance of Stepney and Fenchurch in some of the pictures, these two "Bluebell" engines visited the IOWSR during 2001. The pictures here were taken during that year's Terrier festival. On the subject of Terriers, you may notice a distinct bias towards Mr Stroudley's creations here. To some degree this does reflect my own interest in this class of locomotive, but mainly results from the other locomotives not having been around when I've been taking photos. You will also find one shot of an Island Line EMU in dinosaur livery. |
Picture
Galleries
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Just click on the link below to be taken to the pictures. All images are shown as thumbnails, click on these to see the full size images.
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Copyright
And Reproduction
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Although I doubt anyone would want to rip off my happy snaps of trains, below you will find the usual legal stuff about what you can and cannot do with my pictures. The gist of it is that if you want to do anything more than download them for looking at you must ask me first. Unless otherwise stated,
all images and text on this web site are copyright W. R. Matthews. In the rather unlikely event of anyone out wanting to use any of my pictures do please contact me. Theres a good chance I'll say yes. |
Links
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Just a few links to some other
sites that may interest you. The Isle of Wight Steam Railway A great site with lots of pictures and background information, as well as all the advice on prices, tinetables and how to get there that you would expect. The Island Line Operators of the Ryde to Shanklin railway. Oakwood Press Publishers of transport books and videos including some superb books on Isle of Wight railways. Railways in the Wight - Yahoo group "An e-Group discussing past and present issues linked to the Beeching-torn railways of the Isle of Wight." At the time of writing a fairly quiet group (between 1 and 52 messages a month). Well worth subscribing. Isle of Wight Nostalgia A very nice site about all aspects of the Island, with plenty on the railways. If any of the links don't work please let me know. |
Contact
Me
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