St Helens (Isle of Wight) railway station

A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

St Helen's with its 232-foot-long (71 m) single platform[1] was the only intermediate stop on the 2 3⁄4-mile (4.4 km) branch line that connected Brading to the coast at Bembridge.[2] Opened in 1882, when the area was the Island's main port,[3] it ran with ever dwindling passengers until 1953.[4] Pomeroy[5] described the station thus:

An imposing structure with tall chimneys and elegant dormers, particularly pleasing to the eye.[6]
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Brading   British Rail
Southern Region
Isle of Wight Railway
(Brading Harbour Improvement and Railway Company) :
Brading to Bembridge line		   Bembridge

References

  1. ↑ Paye, Peter (1984). Isle of Wight Railways remembered. Oxford: OPC. ISBN 0-86093-212-5.
  2. ↑ Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN 1-870754-31-X
  3. ↑ Viv Hailes quoted in "Once upon a line (Vol 4) Britton,A": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN 0-86093-513-2
  4. ↑ Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 ISBN 0-906520-56-8
  5. ↑ "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-947971-62-9
  6. ↑ A view Gammell(Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 0-86093-537-X) concurs with One of the most attractive station conversions I have ever seen.

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Coordinates: 50°41′37″N 1°06′44″W / 50.6936°N 1.1123°W