Isle of Wight Railways in the 1950s Southern Way Special Issue No. 20Isle of Wight Railways in the 1950s Southern Way Special Issue No. 20 16. 95 Viewed from over seven decades later the Isle of Wight at the start of the 1950s might at first glance appear to have been experiencing a golden age of railways. A real life Island of Sodor where Victorian steam locomotives crisscrossed the Island from Cowes in the north to Ventnor in the south, and from Freshwater in the west to Bembridge in the east. Even the smallest of