Ventnor railway station

Ventnor railway station was the terminus of the Isle of Wight Railway line from Ryde.

Ventnor
Ventnor railway station in 1963
Location
PlaceVentnor
AreaIsle of Wight
Operations
Pre-groupingIsle of Wight Railway (1864 to 1923)
Post-groupingSouthern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966)
PlatformsTwo
History
10 September 1866[1]Opened (Ventnor)
1923Renamed (Ventnor Town)
1953Renamed (Ventnor)
17 April 1966Closed
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
View towards the stops in 1954
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

History

The station lay on a ledge 294 feet (90 m) above sea level which had to be quarried into the hill side. The station was immediately outside a 1,312 yards (1,200 m) long tunnel through St. Boniface Down. A lack of space meant that a turntable was used to allow steam engines to runaround their trains. In later years this was replaced by a three way switch. The various tracks merged just before the tunnel and the locomotives had to enter the tunnel during their runround manoeuvres.

The station had one side platform connected to the station buildings plus one narrow island platform. Unusually, there was only one track between the side platform and the island platform. When this track was already occupied by a train, a second incoming train had to arrive at the outer face of the island platform and passengers had to pass through the train on the inner track. If this train then departed, a temporary bridge (in fact a ship's gangway, as used on the Portsmouth to Ryde ferries) had to be manually pushed across the intervening track to allow passenger access to the train on the outside of the island platform. Further away from the station buildings were goods sidings which mainly served coal merchants who operated from caves in the chalk sides of the station cutting.

The station closed to all traffic in April 1966, when the line south of Shanklin fell victim to the Beeching Axe. The track was lifted by 1970 and the station subsequently demolished. The site is now an industrial park with Southern Water using the tunnel to run water pipes through.

This station should not be confused with Ventnor West railway station.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Terminus   British Rail
Southern Region
IoWR : Main line		   Wroxall
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See also

References
  1. Southern Region Record by R.H.Clark page 89


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