Site of Bembridge station, 1985
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

Bembridge was the terminus[1] of the 2+3⁄4-mile (4+1⁄2 km) branch line that connected it to the main line at Brading.[2] On holiday Saturdays the sector table revolved continuously because the station area was too small to contain points.[2]

History

Opened in 1882, when the area contained the Island's main port,[3] it ran with ever-dwindling passengers until 1953.[4] The station is long since demolished[5] and a new development (Harbour Strand) in place.[6]

Stationmasters

  • William Weeks 1881–1891[7]
  • Harry Owen Bench c. 1899–1902
  • Walter John Daish[8] 1908–c. 1915 (formerly station master at Ryde St John's)
  • Martin Stanley c. 1951
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
St Helen's   British Railways
Southern Region
Isle of Wight Railway
(Brading Harbour Improvement and Railway Company)
Brading to Bembridge line		   Terminus

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paye, Peter (1984). Isle of Wight Railways remembered. Oxford: OPC. ISBN 0-86093-212-5.
  2. 1 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 Britton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4) : 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. ↑ Pomeroy, C,"Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-947971-62-9
  6. ↑ Gammell C.JSouthern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 0-86093-537-X
  7. ↑ "Obituary". Isle of Wight Country Press and South of England Reporter. England. 14 November 1891. Retrieved 27 July 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Brevities". West Sussex Gazette. England. 4 September 1924. Retrieved 27 July 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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