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]