Newchurch railway station

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Coordinates: 50°40′12″N 1°12′33″W / 50.6700°N 1.2093°W / 50.6700; -1.2093
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Newchurch
Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways
(1948 to 1956)
Key dates
1 February 1875Opened
6 February 1956Closed
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

Newchurch railway station, was an intermediate station situated on the edge of Newchurch village [1] on the line from Newport to Sandown incorporated by the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway in 1868,[2] opened in 1875 and closed 81 years later.[3] Despite its rural location a "respectable"[4] number of families alighted at the simple station, "little more than a wooden hut".[5] The nearest location to the site is a bungalow, Newchurch Crossing.[6]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Alverstone
  
Newport
line 		 
Horringford

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-947971-62-9
  2. ISBN 1-870754-31-X
  3. ISBN 0-906520-56-8
  4. ISBN 0-86093-513-2
  5. ISBN 0-86093-212-5
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  6. ISBN 0-86093-537-X

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50°40′12″N 1°12′33″W / 50.6700°N 1.2093°W / 50.6700; -1.2093


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