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Cowes railway station 
The station in 1963 Location Place Cowes Area Isle of Wight Grid reference SZ496960 Operations Pre-grouping Cowes to Newport Railway (1862-1887)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1887 to 1923)Post-grouping Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966)Platforms 3 History 16 June 1862 Opened 21 February 1966 Closed Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.
Cowes Railway Station took pride in being the “prettiest station on the Garden Isle” [1]. Opened in 1862, the very first on the island as part of the inaugural “Cowes and Newport” railway [2] it expanded to three platforms as the railway branched out towards Ryde in the years before the motor bus began to diminish trade[3]. In its time prosperous enough to have a WH Smiths bookstall latter years were considerably leaner as more and more people took their holidays abroad [4]. The station has long since been demolished[5] and today the area is a supermarket and municipal car park[6].
Preceding station Disused railways Following station Mill Hill British Rail
Southern Region
IoW CR : Newport to Cowes lineTerminus References
- ^ Larry Watson, quoted in Once upon a line (Vol 4) Britton,A: Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132
- ^ Isle of Wight Railways remembered Paye P: Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191
- ^ Bennett,A Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 187075431X
- ^ Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight Hay,P: Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568
- ^ Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X
- ^ Pomeroy, C,A Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now: Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629
See also
External links
Ex stations on the Isle of Wight Alverstone · Bembridge · Blackwater · Calbourne & Shalfleet · Carisbrooke · Cement Mills Halt · Cowes · Freshwater · Godshill · Horringford · Medina Wharf · Merstone · Mill Hill · Newchurch · Newport FYN · Newport IWCR · Newport Pan Lane · Ningwood · Shide · St Helens · St Lawrence · Ventnor · Ventnor West · Watchingwell · Whippingham · Whitwell · Wroxall · Yarmouth
Categories:- Disused railway stations on the Isle of Wight
- Former Isle of Wight Central Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1862
- Railway stations closed in 1966
- Beeching closures in England
- South East England railway station stubs
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