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Picture of closed station in 1970
Disused railway stations on the Isle of Wight Former Isle of Wight Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1862 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in England 1862 establishments in England
Cowes railway station was a railway station in Cowes
Cowes () is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is located on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina, facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east bank. The two towns are linked by the Cowes Fl ...
on the Isle of Wight
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, off the south coast of England. It took pride in being the "prettiest station on the Garden Isle".
History
Opened in 1862, the very first on the island, as part of the inaugural "Cowes and Newport" railway, it expanded to three platforms as the railway branched out towards Ryde in the years before the motor bus began to diminish trade. In its time prosperous enough to have aWH Smith
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bookstall, its latter years were considerably leaner as more and more people took their holidays abroad. The station has long since been demolished and today the area is a supermarket and municipal car park.
In its later years Cowes station was notable for an unusual operating procedure. The engine would propel its empty carriages backwards up the 1-in-95 gradient towards Mill Hill and then run forward and round the train using a crossover. The carriages were then allowed to run back down into the station by gravity, controlled by handbrake by the guard, and the locomotive was reattached to haul its train back to Newport and Ryde
Ryde is an English seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of the Isle of Wight. The built-up area had a population of 23,999 according to the 2011 Census and an estimate of 24,847 in 2019. Its growth as a seaside resort came ...
.
Stationmasters
*Mr. Phillips until 1869 *William Alford ca. 1879 - 1885 *J.R. Thomas from 1885 *William B.S. Greenwood 1889 - 1891 (formerly station master at Newport) *George William Ranger 1891 - 1894 (formerly station master at Yarmouth, afterwards station master at Newport) *Thomas Henry Tutton ca. 1896 - 1913 *Samuel Urry 1913 - 1914 (formerly station master at Freshwater) *Henry L. Hill 1914 - ca. 1938 *Francis E. West 1944 - 1952 (formerly station master at Rowlands Castle, afterwards station master at Alton)See also
*List of closed railway stations in Britain
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Picture of closed station in 1970
Disused railway stations on the Isle of Wight Former Isle of Wight Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1862 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in England 1862 establishments in England
Railway station
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