Carisbrooke railway station

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Carisbrooke
Site of Carisbrooke Railway Station, Isle of Wight, UK.jpg
The site of the former station in 2018
General information
LocationCarisbrooke, Isle of Wight
England
Coordinates 50°41′39″N1°18′44″W / 50.6942°N 1.3121°W / 50.6942; -1.3121
Grid reference SZ486885
Platforms1889-1927:two; 1927-53:one
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Pre-groupingFreshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Post-grouping Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1953)
Key dates
20 July 1889Opened
21 September 1953Closed
Location
Carisbrooke 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.

Carisbrooke Station [1] was a railway station situated near the village of Carisbrooke, [2] just outside Newport, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It was an intermediate [3] station on the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway. It originally had 2 platforms but one platform was abandoned in 1927. It was a busy station for the nearby castle until the advent of the bus routes, [4] but little used thereafter. [5] Closed in 1953, [6] its goods yard was by then derelict and overgrown [7] (its only recent use having been by prisoners during World War II [8] ). The station has long been demolished and the site is no longer clearly discernible within a school playing field amongst modern development. [9]

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Watchingwell [10]   British Railways
Southern Region
Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway 		  Newport
or Separate FYN station (1913–1923)

See also

References

  1. ↑ After 1927, Carisbrooke Halt
  2. ↑ Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN   0-947971-62-9
  3. ↑ Enthusiasts web-site
  4. ↑ Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 ISBN   0-85361-601-9
  5. ↑ Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN   1-870754-31-X
  6. ↑ Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN   0-906520-56-8
  7. ↑ Paye, Peter (1984). Isle of Wight Railways remembered. Oxford: OPC. ISBN   0-86093-212-5.
  8. ↑ Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN   0-86093-513-2
  9. ↑ Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN   0-86093-537-X
  10. ↑ Calbourne before 1923


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