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Newport railway station (Isle of Wight Central Railway)

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The Ryde and Newport Railway opened a wooden engine shed, with coaling and watering facilities on the eastern side of Newport station on 20 December 1875 The Freshwater Yarmouth and Newport Railway also opened a small shed close to the site of Newport Priory, but this was closed upon the formation of
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in December 1875, which also connected the station to Ventnor. Traffic was also increased with the opening of the branch to Sandown in 1879, by the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway. In July 1887 The Cowes and Newport Railway, the Ryde and Newport Railway, and the Isle of Wight (Newport
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was established in 1862 with the opening of the Cowes and Newport Railway. It was enlarged in December 1875 when the lines to Ryde and Ventnor were opened. The station was also used by the
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Railway Station, Newport, Isle of Wight. Shortly before it was demolished, to make way for a new bypass. O2 class No 24 Calbourne awaits restoration
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until January 1971, when the site was demolished by scrap merchants. The station site is now built over with much of it now lost under the
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Cowes and Newport Railway (1862–1887), Ryde and Newport railway (1875–1887), Isle of Wight and Newport Junction Railway (1879–1887),
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from its opening in 1888 until 1913, when that company opened its own station nearby. Upon the formation of the
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For ten years, from 1913 to 1923, there was a separate station for this route a short distance away
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William B.S. Greenwood 1877 - 1889 (afterwards station master at Cowes)
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George W. Ranger 1894 - ca. 1906 (formerly station master at Cowes)
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H. Frank Williams from 1889 (afterwards station master at Merston)
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in 1923 reverted to using this station. The station was closed by
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Newport railway station was a pivotal station within the unique
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Percy Hawkins 1936 - 1940 (formerly station master at Ventnor)
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A. Holdaway 1928 - 1936 (formerly station master at Petworth)
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Alex Wheway from 1941 (formerly station master at Sandown)
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A locomotive history of the railways on the Isle of Wight
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Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
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Newport railway station (IoWCR Isle of Wight)

Newport
Isle of Wight
50°42′10″N 1°17′35″W / 50.7028°N 1.2930°W / 50.7028; -1.2930
Grid reference
SZ500894
Isle of Wight Central Railway
Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways

Railway Clearing House
Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
Southern Railway
British Railways
Wight Locomotive Society
railway network
Isle of Wight
Ryde and Newport Railway
Isle of Wight Central Railway
island
Wight Locomotive Society
A3054
Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway
separate FYN station
Southern Railway
List of closed railway stations in Britain
ISBN
0-86093-212-5
ISBN

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