Carisbrooke Station was a railway station situated near the village of

Carisbrooke Carisbrooke is a village on the south western outskirts of Newport, Isle of Wight and is best known as the site of Carisbrooke Castle. It also has a medieval parish church. St Mary's Church (overlooking Carisbrooke High Street with views to the ...

,Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, just outside Newport,

Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight ( ) is a county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island of England. Referred to as 'The Island' by residents, the Isle of ...

, off the south coast of England. It was an intermediateEnthusiasts web-site
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Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway was a railway line on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, connecting Freshwater and Yarmouth to Newport. It was intended to connect the thinly populated west of the island, and it opened in 1889. At N ...

. It originally had 2 platforms but one platform was abandoned in 1927. It was a busy station for the nearby

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until the advent of the bus routes,Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 but little used thereafter.Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 Closed in 1953,Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 its goods yard was by then derelict and overgrown (its only recent use having been by prisoners during

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Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ). The station has long been demolished and the site is no longer clearly discernible within a school playing field amongst modern development.Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997

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Disused railway stations on the Isle of Wight Former Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1889 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953 {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub

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