Railways

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Railways on the Isle of Wight

Opened:
Cowes to Newport - 1862
Ryde to Shanklin - 1864
Shanklin to Ventnor - 1866
Ryde to Newport - 1875
Sandown to Newport (Shide/Pan) - 1875
Shide/Pan to Newport Central - 1879
Brading to Bembridge - 1882
Newport to Freshwater - 1889
Merstone to St. Lawrence - 1897 (extended to Ventnor West, 1900)

1921 - with the 1921 Railway Act, Southern Railways took over all the railways on the island.

1948 - with nationalisation of all UK railways, Southern Railways became part of British Railways.

Closed:
Merston to Ventnor West - 1952
Brading to Bembridge - 1953
Newport to Freshwater - 1953
Newport to Sandown - 1956
Ryde to Cowes - 1966
Shanklin - Ventnor 1966

Railway locomotives
This is a list of railway locomotives used on the main island railway - it is not complete, only those which I have come across: LB&SCR A1 Class 0-6-0T: W9 - - 1899 - 1927 - scrapped ....
Ryde - Seaview tramway proposal 1899
In 1899 a proposal was made by a Mr. E. I. Bax of Weybridge and a Mr. Ellis of Portsmouth to build a light electric tramway from Ryde to Seaview. The route outlined at a public meeting in Seaview in ....
Ventnor town railways, lift etc
In 1897 an incline railway was proposed for Ventnor from the Esplanade to the top of St. Boniface Down. It was to be in three sections, each being a separate railway. Section 1 was to be from St. ....

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