Place Freshwater Grid reference SZ343871 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 Calbourne & Shalfleet railway st, Carisbrooke railway station, Horringford railway station, Newport railway station, Shide railway station | ||
Remains of freshwater railway station isle of wight
This article is about a defunct station on the Isle of Wight, not the similarly named station on the Skyrail & Kuranda Scenic Railway in Cairns, Australia.
Freshwater railway station, was the westerly terminus and largest station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, the platform being extended to accommodate the “Tourist Train”, a non-stop service from Ventnor. Incorporated as the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway Company in 1860, and opened over a ten-month period between 1888 and 1889, it closed 65 years later, having been situated too far from the tourist honeypots of The Needles and Alum Bay to be consistently profitable. There was a run-round loop, and a goods siding often used for cattle loading. After closure the station was built over by a factory, but this in turn has been demolished and a supermarket now occupies the site.