1860 - Railways of the Isle of Wight (Kickstarter Edition)

Railways on the Isle of Wright were always a triumph of public service over proftabbil9ity. Work started in 1860, as an odd collaboration of the South of England’s bitter rivals, the LSWR and LBSC. Further lines were built by local companies often with high hopes.

Life was always going to be difficult for the companies on the Island. Three of the island’s railways foundered before the 1st World War. One of them (the Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport) even went bankrupt twice, and yet still managed to survive. When the massive Southern Railway conglomerate swallowed the LSWR and LBSC in the 1920’s, much of the island’s network survived, only to be shut down in the face of burgeoning maintenance costs, and competition from the Bus companies after nationalization.

Can you operate the Railways in the Isle of Wight more profitably?

Kickstarter edition includes the bonus expansion: 1860 – Locomotives of the Isle of Wight.