St Helens (Isle of Wight) railway station

St Helen's with its 232 foot long single platform [Paye, P"Isle of Wight Railways remembered" Oxford, OPC, 1984 ISBN 0860932191] was the only intermediate stop on the 2¾ mile branch line that connected Brading to the coast at BembridgeBennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 187075431X] . Opened in 1882, when the area was the Island's main port [Viv Hailes quoted in "Once upon a line (Vol 4) Britton,A": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0860935132] , it ran with ever dwindling passengers until 1953 [Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0906520568] . Pomeroy ["Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629] described the station thus:

An imposing structure with tall chimneys and elegant dormers, particularly pleasing to the eye [A view Gammell(Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X) concurs with "One of the most attractive station conversions I have ever seen."] .

References

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain
* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/s/st.helens/index.shtml St Helens on Subterranea Britannica]

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