Ningwood (Isle of Wight) railway station

Ningwood (Isle of Wight) railway station
Ningwood (IOW)
The old railway station, Ningwood - geograph.org.uk - 62588.jpg
The old station at Ningwood, now a private residence.
Location
Place Ningwood
Area Isle of Wight
Grid reference SZ401883
Operations
Pre-grouping Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway(1888-1913)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1913 to 1923)
Post-grouping Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1953)
Platforms 2
History
10 September 1888 Opened (freight)
20 July 1889 Opened (passengers)
21 September 1953 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

Ningwood railway station, was an intermediate [1] station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, incorporated in 1860 [2], opened over a ten month period between 1889 and 1889 and closed 65 years later [3]. A typical rural station [4] that rapidly lost passengers once buses reached West Wight [5], it was one of the less economically viable stations[6] on this unprofitable line. Despite the addition of a 400-foot (120 m) long passing loop and water tank in 1927 [7], the station was in latter years a somewhat lonely outpost. The station house, situated on the "down" side, is now a private residence [8] and the modest passenger shelter on the "up" their garden shed.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Yarmouth   British Railways
Southern Region

Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
  Calbourne & Shalfleet

References

  1. ^ Subterranea Britannica's page on Ningwood station - Nick Catford]
  2. ^ Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 187075431X
  3. ^ Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568
  4. ^ Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629
  5. ^ Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 ISBN 0853616019
  6. ^ Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132
  7. ^ Paye P "Isle of Wight Railways remembered": Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191
  8. ^ Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X

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Coordinates: 50°41′29″N 1°24′45″W / 50.69139°N 1.4125°W / 50.69139; -1.4125



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