Horringford (Isle of Wight) railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Horringford


caption = The track bed near Horringford Station is now a cycle path.
gridref = SZ543853
manager = "Isle of Wight and Newport Junction Railway (1868Inc);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 = Horringford
borough = Isle of Wight
platforms = 1
years = 1 February 1875
events = Opened
years1 = 6 February 1956
events1 = Closed

Horringford railway station was an intermediate station situated on the edge of Horringford village on the line from Newport to Sandown incorporated by the Isle of Wight and Newport Junction Railway in 1868.Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629] ["Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight" Bennett,A Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISABN 187075431X] The station was opened in 1875 and closed 81 years later in 1956.Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight",: Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568] In its early years it was busy on market days when farmers took their cattle to Newport market, and in later years it carried the local sugar beet trade.Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)" Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132] ["Isle of Wight Railways remembered", Paye P, Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191] The station survives as a private house. ["Southern Branch Lines", Gammell C.J, Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X]

References

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain

External links

* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/h/horringford/index.shtml Subterranea Britannica's page on Horringford]