Ningwood railway station

Ningwood (IOW)
The old station at Ningwood, now a private residence.
General information
Location	Ningwood, Isle of Wight England
Grid reference	SZ401883
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Pre-grouping	Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway Southern Region of British Railways
Key dates
10 September 1888	Opened (freight)
20 July 1889	Opened (passengers)
21 September 1953	Closed
Location

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]

History

It opened over a ten-month period between 1888 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" side their garden shed.

Stationmasters

• Henry George Spinks ca. 1899 ca. 1901 (afterwards station master at Yarmouth)
• William Oliver Bennett 1905 - 1913 ^[9] (afterwards station master at Newport FYN station)
• Ernest Charles Rolf ca. 1915

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Yarmouth		British Railways Southern Region Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway		Calbourne & Shalfleet

See also

• List of closed railway stations in Britain

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   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. Paye, Peter (1984). Isle of Wight Railways remembered. Oxford: OPC. ISBN   0-86093-212-5.
8. Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN   0-86093-537-X
9. "1873-1924 Salaried Staff". London and South Western Railway: 481. 1873. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

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