Calbourne & Shalfleet (Isle of Wight) railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Calbourne (IOW)


caption = The crossing keeper’s cottage at Pound Lane , now a private residence.
gridref = SZ423883
manager = "Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway(1888-1913)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1913 to 1923)
owner = Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1953)
locale = Calbourne
borough = Isle of Wight
platforms = 1
years = 10 September 1888 (freight);20 July 1889(passengers)
events = Opened
years1 = 21 September 1953
events1 = Closed

Calbourne and Shalfleet railway station, was an intermediate [ [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/y/yarmouth/index.shtml Subterranea Britannica's page on Calbourne & Shalfleet station] - Nick Catford] ] station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, incorporated in 1860 Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 187075431X] , opened over a ten month period between 1889 and 1889 and closed 65 years later Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568] . Situated between the two villages Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629] and serving a moderately populous rural area Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 ISBN 0853616019] it was a “reasonably” successful stationBritton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132] on an ultimately unprofitable line. Originally the station had a cottage style front but after absorption by the Southern a corrugated building from the acrimonious-split era [1913-1923] was relocated to the sitePaye P "Isle of Wight Railways remembered": Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191] . The station itself, situated on the down side, has long been demolished and replaced with a modern bungalow Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X] ; but the level-crossing keeper’s cottage, a short distance away at Pounds Lane, is still visitable [ [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/580453 Visit by "Geograph" seeker] ] .

References

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain

External links

* [http://www.shalfleet.net/steve/fyn.htm/ History of FYNR]