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Newport railway station (FYandNR)

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Area
  
Isle of Wight

1 July 1913
  
Opened

Platforms in use
  
1

Grid reference
  
SZ499895

1 August 1923
  
Closed

Newport railway station (FY&NR)

Place
  
Now Funeral Directors in Medina Way

Pre-grouping
  
Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway1888-1923

Similar
  
Newchurch (Isle of Wight) rai, Blackwater (Isle of Wight) rai, Whitwell Halt railway st, Carisbrooke railway station, Godshill railway station

Newport FYN railway station, was, for ten years, the alternative terminus of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway. The new station, opened on 1 July 1913 after a conflict between the FYN and the Isle of Wight Central Railway, closed 10 years later on the creation of the Southern, when Freshwater trains reverted to using Newport's main station. During its inauspicious existence passengers had a short inconvenient walk between the two rival termini. Any trace of the station has long since gone and today a funeral parlour occupies the site.

References

Newport railway station (FY&NR) Wikipedia