Carisbrooke railway station explained

Carisbrooke
Status:Disused
Borough:Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
Country:England
Coordinates:50.6942°N -1.3121°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:1889-1927:two; 1927-53:one
Original:Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Pregroup:Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Postgroup:Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1953)
Years:20 July 1889
Events:Opened
Years1:21 September 1953
Events1:Closed

Carisbrooke Station[1] was a railway station situated near the village of Carisbrooke,[2] just outside Newport, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It was an intermediate[3] station on the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway. It originally had 2 platforms but one platform was abandoned in 1927. It was a busy station for the nearby castle until the advent of the bus routes,[4] but little used thereafter.[5] Closed in 1953,[6] its goods yard was by then derelict and overgrown[7] (its only recent use having been by prisoners during World War II[8]). The station has long been demolished and the site is no longer clearly discernible within a school playing field amongst modern development.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. After 1927, Carisbrooke Halt
  2. Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993,
  3. http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/c/carisbrooke/index.shtml Enthusiasts web-site
  4. Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003
  5. Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994
  6. Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988
  7. Book: Paye, Peter . Isle of Wight Railways remembered . Oxford . OPC . 1984 . 0-86093-212-5 .
  8. Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994
  9. Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997