Place Calbourne Grid reference SZ423883 Platforms in use 1 | Area Isle of Wight 10 September 1888 Opened (freight) | |
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Pre-grouping Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway(1888-1913)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1913 to 1923) Post-grouping Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1953) Similar Carisbrooke railway station, Newport Pan Lane railway st, Ningwood railway station, Watchingwell Halt railway st, Horringford railway station | ||
Calbourne and Shalfleet railway station, was an intermediate station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, incorporated in 1860, opened over a ten-month period between 1889 and 1889 and closed 65 years later. Situated between the two villages and serving a moderately populous rural area it was a "reasonably" successful station 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 era was relocated to the site. The station itself, situated on the down side, has long been demolished and replaced with a modern bungalow; but the level-crossing keeper’s cottage, a short distance away at Pounds Lane, is still visitable.