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Former railway station in Isle of Wight, UK

Ningwood (IOW)
The old station at Ningwood, now a private residence.
General information
LocationNingwood, Isle of Wight
England
Grid referenceSZ401883
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyFreshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Pre-groupingFreshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Post-grouping
Key dates
10 September 1888Opened (freight)
20 July 1889Opened (passengers)
21 September 1953Closed
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

Ningwood railway station, was an intermediate station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, incorporated in 1860.

History

It opened over a ten-month period between 1888 and 1889 and closed 65 years later. A typical rural station that rapidly lost passengers once buses reached West Wight, it was one of the less economically viable stations on this unprofitable line. Despite the addition of a 400-foot (120 m) long passing loop and water tank in 1927, the station was in latter years a somewhat lonely outpost. The station house, situated on the "down" side, is now a private residence 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 (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

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.
Disused railway stations on the Isle of Wight
Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Isle of Wight Railway
Isle of Wight Central Railway

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