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From: "Jon Baker" <>
Subject: RE: [IoW] Paddle Steamers
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:25:35 +0100
In-Reply-To: <003201c457db$ddd03280$ecdb4e51@chris>


Chris
Think too much steam may have affected your memory ;-) The line from Ryde
divided at Smallbrook, not Ashey. Ashey was (is) on the line to Newport and
Cowes, not the line to Wroxall and Ventnor.

Jon Baker

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris & Caroline [mailto:]
Sent: 21 June 2004 23:05
To:
Subject: RE: [IoW] Paddle Steamers


Hi Val

I loved the old steam trains and the uncle I mention above lived at St
Johns in Ryde and his back garden backed onto the railway line and I
used to love watching them all go along the line. After St Johns was
Ashey where the track divided and also I remember well the Wroxall
tunnel before entering Ventnor.


Chris and Caroline
SOUTHERN LIFE(UK)
The History of the villages of Hampshire and its surrounding counties

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages



-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]
Sent: 21 June 2004 22:20
To:
Subject: Re: [IoW] Paddle Steamers


Hello Chris

The children of today miss a lot of simple pleasures don't
they.I
lived at Ventnor so we also used the trains,also named after the
Islands
towns.Pity the the line was cut off at Shanklin,to go through the
tunnel and
arrive at Ventnor which was such an unusual scene with the caves which
were used
by coal lorries,etc.
In the booking office was a large glass case with a wonderful
ark
inside,a collection box attached to the front in the shape of a
lifeboat,collecting for the RNLI, where is it now ?

Kind regards Valerie

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