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Shide (Isle Of Wight) Railway Station
Shide railway station was at Shide, on the southern fringes of Newport, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It was an intermediate station on the line from Newport to Sandown, which was initially operated by the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway (incorporated 1868).

History

Shide station opened in 1875 and closed, along with the line itself, in 1956. Situated near Shide Chalk Pits, it was a sparsely used station whose main purpose was to transport raw materials needed for the Island’s cement industry. It was doomed when production ceased during the Second World War. The station site was built over and is now occupied by a warehouse, and the River Medina has since been diverted to flow along the course of the old railway at this point. The old track to the south of the station site is now a cycle route (NCN23).

Stationmasters

  • George Ranger ca. 1886
  • Samuel John Urry ca. 1899 ca. 1901 (afterwards station master at Calbourne)
  • George Hayward ca. 1915
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Blackwater   British Railways
Southern Region
IoW CR : Sandown to Newport line 		  Newport
  Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway
(become part of IWCR in 1887) 		  Pan Lane

See also

References

  1. ^ Except for seven months between February and August 1875 when it was the terminus of the fledgling railway company [1]
  2. ^ Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 1-870754-31-X
  3. ^ Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0-906520-56-8
  4. ^ Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-947971-62-9
  5. ^ Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0-86093-513-2
  6. ^ Paye, Peter (1984). Isle of Wight Railways remembered. Oxford: OPC. ISBN 0-86093-212-5.
  7. ^ Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 0-86093-537-X
  8. ^ "NewPort Borough Police". Isle of Wight County Press and South of England Reporter. England. 6 November 1886. Retrieved 25 July 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.

50°41′26″N 1°17′18″W / 50.6906°N 1.2883°W / 50.6906; -1.2883


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