Calbourne & Shalfleet railway station

Calbourne and Shalfleet railway station, was an intermediate Subterranea Britannica's page on Calbourne & Shalfleet 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 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 Situated between the two villages Pomeroy, C.A., "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford, Past & Present Publishing, 1993, and serving a moderately populous rural area Maycock, R.J/Silsbury, R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 it was a "reasonably" successful stationBritton, A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 on an ultimately unprofitable line. Originally the station had a cottage style front but after absorption by the Southern a corrugated building from the acrimonious-split era1913-1923 was relocated to the site. The station itself, situated on the down side, has long been demolished and replaced with a modern bungalow;Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 but the level-crossing keeper's cottage, a short distance away at Pounds Lane, is still visitable.Visit by "Geograph" seeker

See also

List of closed railway stations in Britain

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