Watchingwell Halt (Isle of Wight) railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Watchingwell (IOW)


caption = Watchingwell Station, now a private residence.
gridref = SZ448884
manager = "Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway(1897-1913)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1913 to 1923)
owner = Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1953)
locale = Upper Watchingwell
borough = Isle of Wight
platforms = 1
years = 19 June 1897
events = Opened
years1 = 21 September 1953
events1 = Closed

Watchingwell Halt [Sometimes known as Upper Watchingwell Halt] , was an intermediate [ [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/y/yarmouth/index.shtml Enthusiasts web-site] ] station on the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway ,situated near the hamlet of Upper Watchingwell Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629] , that started life as a private halt. It was built at the bequest of Sir John Barrington Simeon, M.P for SouthamptonMaycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 ISBN 0853616019] , in 1897, not included in timetables available to the general public until the creation of the Southern in 1923Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 187075431X] , and closed in 1953Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568] . It was, by its very nature, a sparsely used stationPaye P "Isle of Wight Railways remembered": Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191] but the only one prior to electrification in 1965 to include a cattle grid on its premisesBritton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132] . It is now a private residence "Watchingwell Station" Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X] adorned with railway memorabilia.

References

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain

External links

[http://www.shalfleet.net/steve/fyn.htm/ History of FYNR]
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