Bembridge railway station

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Site of Bembridge station, 1985 Bembridge station site geograph-3259956-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
Site of Bembridge station, 1985
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight RJD 135.jpg
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

Bembridge was the terminus [1] of the 2+3⁄4-mile (4+1⁄2 km) branch railway line that connected it to the main line at Brading on the Isle of Wight, England. [2] On holiday Saturdays the sector table revolved continuously because the station area was too small to contain points. [2]

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History

Opened in 1882, when the area contained the island's main port, [3] it ran with ever-dwindling passengers until 1953. [4] The station is long since demolished [5] and a new development (Harbour Strand) in place. [6]

Stationmasters

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
St Helen's   British Railways
Southern Region
Isle of Wight Railway
(Brading Harbour Improvement and Railway Company)
Brading to Bembridge line 		 Terminus

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paye, Peter (1984). Isle of Wight Railways remembered. Oxford: OPC. ISBN   0-86093-212-5.
  2. 1 2 Bennett, A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN   1-870754-31-X
  3. ↑ Viv Hailes quoted in Britton, A "Once upon a line (Vol 4) : Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN   0-86093-513-2
  4. ↑ Hay, P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst, Middleton, 1988 ISBN   0-906520-56-8
  5. ↑ Pomeroy, C,"Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford, Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN   0-947971-62-9
  6. ↑ Gammell C.JSouthern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN   0-86093-537-X
  7. ↑ "Obituary" . Isle of Wight Country Press and South of England Reporter. England. 14 November 1891. Retrieved 27 July 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Brevities" . West Sussex Gazette. England. 4 September 1924. Retrieved 27 July 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.

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