Carisbrooke railway station

Carisbrooke StationAfter 1927, Carisbrooke Halt was a railway station situated near the village of Carisbrooke,Pomeroy, C, A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford, Past & Present Publishing, 1993, just outside Newport, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It was an intermediateEnthusiasts web-site station on the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway. It originally had 2 platforms but one platform was abandoned in 1927. It was a busy station for the nearby castle until the advent of the bus routes,Maycock, R.J/Silsbury, R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 but little used thereafter.Bennett, A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 Closed in 1953,Hay, P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst, Middleton, 1988 its goods yard was by then derelict and overgrown (its only recent use having been by prisoners during World War IIBritton, A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ). The station has long been demolished and the site is no longer clearly discernible within a school playing field amongst modern development.Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997

See also

List of closed railway stations in Britain

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