Ventnor West railway station
- Ventnor West railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Ventnor West
caption =
gridref =
manager = Newport, Godshill & St Lawrence Railway (1897-?)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (? to 1923)
owner = Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to ?)
locale = Ventnor
borough = Isle of Wight
platforms = 1
years = 1 June 1900
events = Opened (Ventnor Town)
years1 = 1923
events1 = Renamed (Ventnor West)
years2 = 15 September 1952
events2 = Closed
Ventnor West station was opened on 1 June 1900 as the final addition to the railway network on the Isle of Wight. It was originally opened as Ventnor Town but the station was renamed in 1923 by the Southern Railway.
Location
The station was inconveniently situated for the town, being some distance west of the town centre. Consequently it never lived up to the expectations of the operators and was an early casualty of the pruning of the railway network. The station closed along with the others on the line on 15 September 1952. Today the station building is still standing, surrounded by modern housing in Castle Close.
Other stations on the branch
The other stations on the Ventnor West branch were:
* Merstone (where the branch joined the Newport-Sandown line)
* Godshill
* Whitwell
* St. Lawrence (the original terminus of the line from 1897 to 1900)
External links
* [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#454,76,1 Ventnor West station on navigable 1946 O. S. map]
* [http://wightundercliff.mine.nu Website with old pictures of the Undercliff of the Isle of Wight]
* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/v/ventnor_west/index.shtml Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites: Ventnor West Station]
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