Freshwater railway station

Freshwater railway station was the westerly terminusSubterranea Britannica's page on Freshwater station - Nick Catford and largest stationPomeroy, C.A., "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford, Past & Present Publishing, 1993, of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, the platform being extended to accommodate the "Tourist Train", a non-stop service from Ventnor.Maycock, R.J/Silsbury, R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003

History Incorporated as the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway Company in 1860,Bennett, A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 and opened over a ten-month period between 1888 and 1889, it closed 65 years later,Hay, P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst, Middleton, 1988 having been situated too far from the tourist honeypots of The Needles and Alum Bay to be consistently profitable.Britton, A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 There was a run-round loop, and a goods siding often used for cattle loading. After closure the station was built over by a factory,Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 but this in turn has been demolished and a supermarket now occupies the site.

Stationmasters Frederick George Drudge 1889 - ca. 1894 (formerly station master at Horringford) William Denyer ca. 1899 ca. 1901 F. Newland 1905 - 1908 (afterwards station master at Whitwell) Samuel John Urry 1908 - ca. 1915 (formerly station master at Shide, then Calbourne) S. Russell ca. 1936

See also

List of closed railway stations in Britain

References

External links Freshwater station on navigable 1946 O. S. map