Shide (Isle of Wight) railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Shide


caption = The old Sandown to Newport railway line (now CycleRoute NCN23 route ends by this bridge over the river Medina.
gridref = SZ504882
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 = Shide
borough = Isle of Wight
platforms = 1
years = 1 February 1875
events = Opened
years1 = 6 February 1956
events1 = Closed

Shide railway station, was an intermediate station [Except for seven months between February and August 1875 when it was the terminus of the fledgling railway company [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/b/blackwater/index.shtm] ] on the southern fringes of Newport situated near Shide Chalk Pits 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 ISBN 187075431X] , opened in 1875 and closed 81 years later Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568] . A sparsely used station whose main purpose was to transport raw materials needed for the Island’s cement industryBritton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132] , it was doomed when production ceased during the Second World War Paye P "Isle of Wight Railways remembered": Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191] . The station was built over Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X] and the site is now occupied by a warehouse.

References

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain

External links

[http://www.iwight.com/living_here/planning/Countryside/Nature_Reserves/Shide_Chalk_Pit/ History of Shide Chalk Pit]
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