Calbourne (IOW) | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Calbourne, Isle of Wight |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 1 |
Pregroup: | Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway(1888-1913) Isle of Wight Central Railway (1913 to 1923) |
Postgroup: | Southern Railway (1923 to 1948) Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1953) |
Years: | 10 September 1888 |
Events: | Opened (freight) |
Years1: | 20 July 1889 |
Events1: | Opened (passengers) |
Years2: | 21 September 1953 |
Events2: | Closed |
Calbourne and Shalfleet railway station, was an intermediate [1] station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, incorporated in 1860,[2] opened over a ten-month period between 1888 and 1889 and closed 65 years later.[3] Situated between the two villages [4] and serving a moderately populous rural area [5] it was a "reasonably" successful station[6] 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[7] was relocated to the site.[8] The station itself, situated on the down side, has long been demolished and replaced with a modern bungalow;[9] but the level-crossing keeper's cottage, a short distance away at Pounds Lane, is still visitable.[10]