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Mill Hill (Isle of Wight) railway station

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Area
  
Isle of Wight

16 June 1862
  
Opened

Grid reference
  
SZ497954

Platforms in use
  
1

Mill Hill (Isle of Wight) railway station

Place
  
Southern suburbs of Cowes

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 Pan Lane railway st, Medina Wharf Halt railway st, Cowes railway station, Calbourne & Shalfleet railway st, Shide railway station

Mill Hill Railway Station is a disused station on the Isle of Wight. It was first seen as the down train from Cowes emerged from the 208 yard tunnel along the curving platform, the sweep still visible in 2005 on a small area of grass where the demolished station once stood. Unlike many Island railway stations Mill Hill was busy at the beginning and end of each working day, depositing and picking up hundreds of workmen from shipyards. Conversely, after passenger closure in 1966 a single employee spent six months on duty at the crossing just past the station with not one chance to open it, although freight traffic continued to Medina Wharf for a few months after passenger trains were withdrawn.

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Mill Hill (Isle of Wight) railway station Wikipedia