Blackwater (Isle of Wight) railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Blackwater


caption = Between the old railway line carrying NCN23 at Blackwater and the bridleway carrying the Stenbury Trail.
gridref = SZ507864
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 = Blackwater
borough = Isle of Wight
platforms = 1
years = 1 February 1875
events = Opened
years1 = 6 February 1956
events1 = Closed

Blackwater railway station, was an intermediate station in the very centre of the islandHammond,R.J.W(Ed)”Ward Lock Guide to the Isle of Wight” London, Ward Lock, 1969 ISBN 0706310829] situated on the A3020 road Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629] on the line from Newport to Sandown incorporated by the Isle of Wight and Newport Junction Railway in 1868 Bennett,A"Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight" Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISABN 187075431X] , opened in 1875 and closed 81 years later Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight",: Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568] . A rural station whose “heyday was before the advent of the motor car” Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)" Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132] , during the inter-war years it was known for its large collection of enamel advertising boards Paye P "Isle of Wight Railways remembered": Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191] . The station survives as an enlarged private houseGammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X] known as “Brambles”.

References

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain

External links

* [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#448,86,1 Blackwater station on navigable 1946 O. S. map]
* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/b/blackwater/index.shtml Subterranea Britannica's page on Blackwater]