- Wroxall railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Wroxall
caption =
gridref =
manager =Isle of Wight Railway (1864 to 1923)
owner = Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966)
locale =Wroxall, Isle of Wight
borough =Isle of Wight
platforms = Two
years =15 September 1866
events = Opened
years1 =17 April 1966
events1 = ClosedWroxall railway station was an intermediate station on the
Isle of Wight Railway line fromRyde , situated between Shanklin and Ventnor with an upland situation. To the north lay Apse Bank with its three bridges [ Upper Hyde Lane, Cliff and Three Arch Ordnance Survey Sheet 196 The Solent & Isle of Wight, 2006 ISBN 031922869X] , and on leaving the station the gradient increased to 1 in 88 as Ventnor Tunnel was approached" [ Isle of Wight Railways remembered Paye P: Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191] . Reasonably busy with commuter traffic all the year round [ "George Lewis", porter at Wroxall Station, quoted in Once upon a line (Vol 4) Britton,A: Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132] it was originally built with a single siding, goods traffic diminished rapidly with the advent of the motor bus [ Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight Hay,P: Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568] . The Station Hotel was situated on the Up Platform [ Today it has ben converted into housing units Isle of Wight Railways Pomeroy,C Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629] . Next to this was a single storey station [ This has been demolished . Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Bennett,A: Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 187075431X] . On the down side was a small shelter [ [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/w/wroxall/index.shtml Enthusiasts web-site] ] .References
See also
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List of closed railway stations in Britain
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