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Ningwood railway station, was an intermediate station of the
Ningwood railway station, was an intermediate station of the 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 ...
, incorporated in 1860.Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994
History
It opened over a ten-month period between 1889 and 1889 and closed 65 years later.Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 A typical rural station Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, that rapidly lost passengers once buses reached West Wight,Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 it was one of the less economically viable stationsBritton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 on this unprofitable line. Despite the addition of a 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 Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 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. 1915See also
*List of closed railway stations in Britain
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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 1889 establishments in England 1953 disestablishments in England {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub