Locomotives of the Isle of Wight RailwaysLocomotives of the Isle of Wight Railways 25. 00 Island railways hold an enduring fascination for railway enthusiasts and although many books have been published about the railways on the Isle of Wight surprisingly very little has been written about the locomotives which ran on the island. Apart from a modest volume written by the late D. L. Bradley which was published in 1982, there has been no attempt to compile a definitive history of all the