Calbourne and Shalfleet railway station, was an intermediate station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, incorporated in 1860, opened over a ten month period between 1889 and 1889 and closed 65 years later. Situated between the two villages and serving a moderately populous rural area it was a “reasonably” successful station on an ultimately unprofitable line. Originally the station had a cottage style front but after absorption by the Southern

Southern Railway (Great Britain)

The Southern Railway was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent...

 a corrugated building from the acrimonious-split era was relocated to the site. The station itself, situated on the down side, has long been demolished and replaced with a modern bungalow; but the level-crossing keeper’s cottage, a short distance away at Pounds Lane, is still visitable.

External links

• History of FYNR