Alverstone (Isle of Wight) railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Alverstone


caption = The track bed near Alverstone Station is now a cycle path.
gridref = SZ577856
manager = Isle of Wight and Newport Junction Railway (1868-inc;1875-1887)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1887 to 1923)
owner = Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1956)
locale = Alverstone
borough = Isle of Wight
platforms = 1
years = 1 February 1875
events = Opened
years1 = 6 February 1956
events1 = Closed

Alverstone railway station, was an intermediate station situated on the edge of Alverstone garden village Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629] on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.

History

Served by the line from Newport to Sandown the station was incorporated by the Isle of Wight and Newport Junction Railway in 1868Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 187075431X] opened in 1875. Absorbed by the Isle of Wight Central Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed 81 years after opening by the British Transport Commission. Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568] .

During a Second World War blackout a train ran through Alverstone and a railwayman had to escort the passengers back to there from Newchurch Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132] .

The site today

The station house is now a private residence Gammell,C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Gammell,C.J Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X] . called "Casa Mia".

References

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See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain

External links

* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/a/alverstone/index.shtml Subterranea Britannica's page on Alverstone]