Photos taken during our Island Buses Only Running Day, May 10th 2009 can be seen on our Photo gallery page

A video tour of our museum is now available

Photos taken during our autumn running day on Sunday, October 18th 2009 can be seen via our Photo Galley Page

A list of vehicles entered for this event can be seen here

Bill Steward's 1951 Bristol LL5G was involved in an accident on May 3rd on the A3 en route to London for the HCVS's London to Brighton run. Fortunately 835 has been repaired and can be seen here

Want to get something off your chest? Got something to sell? Just want to chat? Visit The Bus Chat Forum. The Preservation Section is sponsored by The Isle of Wight Bus Museum

This watercolour painting by Vivianne Moore of 611 passing through Shanklin Old Village enroute to Blackgang was won in the raffle by Melvin Phillips.Prints of this painting can be ordered direct from the artist@£12.00 including U.K.p&p. To see more of her work, visit Mooreart.co.uk

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An Island vehicles only running day was held on Sunday, May 11th 2008. Photographs of this event can be seen via our Photo Gallery Page

A page has been started of one trip by 519 to Kathmandu and a page by Trevor Carroll on his trips with Top Deck

628 (SDL 638J) has been repained and photos are on page 45 628 & 611 have both passed MOT tests on April 29th See Restoration News

A selection of photographs taken at The Paris Transport Museum has been added to the Photo Gallery page. More photos are available to view on the Fotopic website. Follow the links from the Photo Gallery page or click here

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Page last updated - July 4, 2010

We can now accept on-line payments for membership of our museum. See Admission Charges and also donations towards the costs of running our museum. See Help Us

We've added a link across the water to The City of Portsmouth Preserved Transport Depot Website

Ex Southern Vectis 673, UDL 673S, was handed over to the museum on Sunday May 10th 2009 for preservation by Alex Carter, MD of Go Southcoast. For photos of the presentation, click here

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Photographs of the Thomas The Tank Engine event 2008 can now be seen via our Photo Gallery page

Over The August Bank Holiday week-end, Matt Birkin took 628,which he part owns, to the Island Steam Show at the Steam Railway, Havenstreet and won first prize! In his own words ;-" Completely out of the blue it won the best commercial vehicle in show award as judged by the commercial vehicle section. (normally a lorry wins, in fact this is the first time a bus has)
I wasn't going to take it around the arena on the Monday as lots of others were there and I didn't think there would be room, plus it was rather muddy. I did wonder why the commercial vehicle section steward was so insistant that I did take it in!! I wasn't even listening to the announcment as I had my head in the engine bay of a very nice showmans Scammel. Anyway 628 got a very nice sheild which I have had engraved and is currently proudly displayed on the bus."

Well, congratulations to Matt and all those involved in restoring this bus. Pictures of Matt, the bus & shield can be found on the Photo Gallery page

For those of you interested in life on the other side of the pond, we now have a link to an American bus museum, .The Museum of Bus Transportation located in Hershey, Pensylvania

Work on the restoration of 908 continues and more photos of this bus have been added to the website.