Locomotive in Isle of Wight 115 



The old 4 and 5 were built in 1876 for 

 the opening of the Newport and Ryde Rail- 

 way, and bore the names " Cowes " and 

 " Osborne ". 



No. 6 was easily the biggest engine run- 

 ning in the island until the Southern took 

 charge, and it had the wheel formula 4-4-0. 

 She was also the only outside-cylindered 

 engine seen on Wight metals within recent 

 years. 



No. 7 was a second-hand 2-4-0 from 

 the Midland and South-Western Junction 

 Railway, and she gave twenty years' good 

 service to the Central, getting in forty-four 

 altogether, before she went to the scrap 

 heap at Ryde. She was built by Beyer 

 Peacock & Co., also No. 8, which was 

 one of the last engines to be scrapped, 

 came from those famous works, having 

 been purchased new by the Central in 

 1898. 



She was employed in her last days on the 

 branch line services, sharing them with 9, 10, 

 ii and 12, the remaining engines of the Cen- 

 tral to be taken over. These are all veterans, 







