Ningwood railway station



Ningwood railway station, was an intermediate station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, incorporated  in 1860.

History
It opened over a ten-month period between 1888 and 1889 and closed 65 years later. A typical rural station that rapidly lost passengers once buses reached West Wight, it was one of the less economically viable stations on this unprofitable line. Despite the addition of a 400 ft long passing loop and water tank in 1927, the station was in latter years a somewhat lonely outpost. The station house, situated on the "down" side, is now a private residence and the modest passenger shelter on the "up" side their garden shed.

Stationmasters

 * Henry George Spinks ca. 1899 ca. 1901 (afterwards station master at Yarmouth)
 * William Oliver Bennett 1905 - 1913 (afterwards station master at Newport FYN station)
 * Ernest Charles Rolf ca. 1915