Ningwood railway station

Ningwood railway station, was an intermediate Subterranea Britannica's page on Ningwood station - Nick Catford] station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, 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 1888 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. 1915

See also

List of closed railway stations in Britain

References