'Waggoner' leads the special Goods Train into Havenstreet Station.

With the potential difficulty in delivering new Skoda cars to the garage and beer to the pub the IWSR offered to bring the beer and vehicles in to the village on wagons hauled by vintage steam locomotives. The three businesses joined forces on Wednesday 17th October when barrels of beer and the first Skoda cars were delivered to Havenstreet station on a Goods Train hauled by Hunslet 'Austerity' locomotive WD192 'Waggoner'. Peter Vail, General Manager of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway commented 'During the road closure it is very much business as usual. Customers of the railway, pub and the garage are having no problems finding a way to us from Briddlesford Road, and in any case our cross-platform rail link with Island Line at Smallbrook Junction remains an easy method of getting to the railway and Havenstreet village'

Backing into the station yard ready to unload.

Ray Winter, Sales Director of Winter's Garage explained that 'With transporter lorries being unable to turn in the road we now have a novel solution in working with our friends at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway'. The popular village pub, the White Hart Inn, reopened only last week following an extensive refurbishment. Landlord Keith Terrell said 'Customers old and new are guaranteed a warm welcome, good food and a fine pint of ale, and thanks to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway there is now no danger of us becoming the pub with no beer'!

Ray Winter of Winter's Garage (Left) and Keith Terrell of the White Hart Inn help Terry Hastings and Dennis Harrison unload the first barrel of the special consignment.