Cement Mills Halt

Cement Mills Halt
The Cement Works the Halt served
Location
Place Inlet, River Medina
Area Isle of Wight
Coordinates 50°43′20″N 1°17′16″W / 50.7223°N 1.2879°WCoordinates: 50°43′20″N 1°17′16″W / 50.7223°N 1.2879°W
Grid reference SZ503917
Operations
Pre-grouping Cowes to Newport Railway (1879-1887)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1862 to 1923)
Post-grouping Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966)
Platforms 1
History
Poss 1879; def 1905 Opened
21 February 1966 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

Cement Mills Halt was a railway station between Cowes and Newport on the Isle of Wight. It was a public railway station throughout its life, although principally used by workers at the cement works in Stag Lane.[1] It was not included on public time tables[2] but was available to ramblers visible enough on the primitive gas-lit platform to stop the train “on request”.[3] The trackway is now part of a national cycle route.[4]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Newport   British Rail
Southern Region
IoW CR : Newport to Cowes line		   Medina Wharf

West Medina Cement Works

Cement Mills Halt primarily served the West Medina Cement Works,[5] which was owned and operated by Francis and Company Cement Manufacturers. Near the village of Northwood, was the extensive cement works of Messrs. Francis, Son, & Co., of Nine Elms, London, who employed about 100 people at the West Medina Cement Works in the manufacture of Portland and Medina cements.[6] The Francis Co. had the contract to supply all the Portand cement for the construction of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Location on Street Map
  2. ↑ Enthusists web-site
  3. ↑ Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-947971-62-9
  4. ↑ Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 0-86093-537-X
  5. ↑ Cement Plant Website
  6. ↑ White, William (1878). History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire (2nd ed.). Sheffield: William White. p. 337.
  7. ↑ Douglass, William Tregarthen (1884). "The New Eddystone Lighthouse, with Discussion". Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. vol. 75, part 1. London: Institution of Civil Engineers. pp. 20–60.

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