Mill Hill (Isle of Wight) railway station | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Southern suburbs of Cowes, Isle of Wight |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 1 |
Pregroup: | Cowes and Newport Railway (1862-1887) Isle of Wight Central Railway (1887 to 1923) |
Postgroup: | Southern Railway (1923 to 1948) Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966) |
Years: | 1871 |
Events: | Opened |
Years1: | 21 February 1966 |
Events1: | Closed |
Mill Hill railway station is a disused station in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
It opened in 1871[1] and was first seen as the down train from the main Cowes railway station emerged from the 208 yard tunnel along the curving platform,[2] the sweep still visible in 2005[3] on a small area of grass where the demolished station[4] once stood.[5] Unlike many of the Island's railway stations, Mill Hill was busy at the beginning and end of each working day, depositing and picking up hundreds of workmen from shipyards.[6]
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chance to open it,[7] although freight traffic continued to Medina Wharf for a few months after passenger trains were withdrawn.