Shide railway station

Shide railway station was at Shide, on the southern fringes of Newport, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It was an intermediate stationExcept for seven months between February and August 1875 when it was the terminus of the fledgling railway company on the line from Newport to Sandown, which was initially operated by the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway (incorporated 1868).Bennett, A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994

History Shide station opened in 1875 and closed, along with the line itself, in 1956.Hay, P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst, Middleton, 1988 Situated near Shide Chalk Pits,Pomeroy, C. A., "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford, Past & Present Publishing, 1993, it was a sparsely used station whose main purpose was to transport raw materials needed for the Island’s cement industry.Britton, A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 It was doomed when production ceased during the Second World War. The station site was built overGammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 and is now occupied by a warehouse, and the River Medina has since been diverted to flow along the course of the old railway at this point. The old track to the south of the station site is now a cycle route (NCN23).

Stationmasters George Ranger ca. 1886 Samuel John Urry ca. 1899 ca. 1901 (afterwards station master at Calbourne) George Hayward ca. 1915

See also List of closed railway stations in Britain

References

External links History of Shide Chalk Pit