Introduction During 2013 we established a very good relationship with the IoW Steam Railway. We secured an agreement to bring Freshwater back home for the 50th Anniversary commemoration which had to be cancelled because we could not raise the £6000 needed for the movement and the necessary security arrangements, This is the subject of another [...]
Billy Preserved
The Terriers still at work
When people talk of the ‘Hayling Billy’, they often speak of it as one single locomotive or train, much as they would the ‘Flying Scotsman’ or Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’. But in fact nothing could be further from the truth as over the years many engines worked on the Havant to Hayling Island branch line, indeed in [...]