Calbourne & Shalfleet railway station

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Calbourne (IOW)
Pound Crossing - geograph.org.uk - 580453.jpg
The crossing keeper’s cottage at Pound Lane , now a private residence.
General information
Location Calbourne, Isle of Wight
England
Grid reference SZ423883
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingFreshwater, 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)
Key dates
10 September 1888Opened (freight)
20 July 1889Opened (passengers)
21 September 1953Closed
Location
Calbourne & Shalfleet railway station
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.

Calbourne and Shalfleet 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 1888 and 1889 and closed 65 years later. [3] Situated between the two villages [4] and serving a moderately populous rural area [5] it was a "reasonably" successful station [6] 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 [7] was relocated to the site. [8] The station itself, situated on the down side, has long been demolished and replaced with a modern bungalow; [9] but the level-crossing keeper's cottage, a short distance away at Pounds Lane, is still visitable. [10]

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Ningwood   British Railways
Southern Region
Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway 		  Watchingwell

See also

References

  1. ↑ Subterranea Britannica's page on Calbourne & Shalfleet station - Nick Catford
  2. ↑ Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN   1-870754-31-X
  3. ↑ Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN   0-906520-56-8
  4. ↑ Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN   0-947971-62-9
  5. ↑ Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 ISBN   0-85361-601-9
  6. ↑ Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN   0-86093-513-2
  7. ↑ 1913-1923
  8. ↑ Paye, Peter (1984). Isle of Wight Railways remembered. Oxford: OPC. ISBN   0-86093-212-5.
  9. ↑ Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN   0-86093-537-X
  10. ↑ Visit by "Geograph" seeker

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