Medina Wharf Railway Station was a private halt between Cowes and Newport on the Isle of Wight that provided a way for workers at the nearby wharf to get to work before the road was laid. No shelter for its few passengers was ever providedPomeroy, C. A., "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford, Past & Present Publishing, 1993, and it never appeared on a public timetable.Enthusiasts web-site Additionally a non-passenger-carrying coal train transported coal from the siding via the halt to Ryde.Hay, P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst, Middleton, 1988 After the Southern Railway took over from the IWCR the whole complex was extensively rebuilt.
After the closure of the passenger station in 1966, freight traffic continued for about a year following which the track was lifted in the early 1970s.Hughie White, quoted in "Once upon a line (Vol 4)" Britton, A.: Oxford, OPC, 1994 The trackway is now part of NCN route 23.Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997
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List of closed railway stations in Britain