Place Cowes Grid reference SZ496960 Platforms in use 3 | Area Isle of Wight 16 June 1862 Opened | |
Pre-grouping Cowes and Newport Railway (1862-1887)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1887 to 1923) Post-grouping Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966) Similar Newport railway station, Shide railway station, Ventnor West railway st, Medina Wharf Halt railway st, Whippingham railway station |
Cowes Railway Station took pride in being the “prettiest station on the Garden Isle”. Opened in 1862, the very first on the island as part of the inaugural “Cowes and Newport” railway it expanded to three platforms as the railway branched out towards Ryde in the years before the motor bus began to diminish trade. In its time prosperous enough to have a WH Smiths bookstall, its latter years were considerably leaner as more and more people took their holidays abroad. The station has long since been demolished and today the area is a supermarket and municipal car park.
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