Blackwater railway station was a station at Blackwater,

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, off the south coast of England.

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Located in the centre of the island on the

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, it was an intermediate station on the line from Newport to

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, which was originally operated by the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway (incorporated 1868). The station opened in 1875 and closed, along with the line itself, in 1956. A rural station whose "heyday was before the advent of the motor car", during the inter-war years it was known for its large collection of enamel advertising boards. The station survives as an enlarged private house known as Brambles. The old railway track is now a cycle track, though this diverges slightly from the course of the old railway around the station building itself.

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Blackwater station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

Subterranea Britannica's page on Blackwater
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