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Yarmouth station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
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
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 ...
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History
It was incorporated in 1860,Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 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 Situated on the outskirts of the town Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 ) it was one of the more economically viable stationsBritton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 on a generally unprofitable line. Until the 1920s there was a lengthy passing loop and second (staggered) platform. The former station building was for a period used as aYouth Club
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, and is now (as of 2022) a restaurant. It is still very recognisable as a FYNR station.Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997
Stationmasters
*George William Ranger until ca. 1891 (afterwards station master at Cowes) *Robert White ca. 1898 ca. 1909 *Henry George Spinks ca. 1910 - 1911 (injured during a shunting accident resulting in the amputation of his arm) *Henry William Hodges 1911 - 1924 *Charles Dennett 1924 - 1930 (formerly station master at St Lawrence and Ventnor West, afterwards station master at Gosport) *A.W. Young ca. 1936 ca. 1937
See also
*List of closed railway stations in Britain
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Organizations
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References
External links
Yarmouth station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
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
Railway station
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