Cement Mills Halt railway station
Cement Mills Halt | |
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General information | |
Location | Isle of Wight |
Coordinates | 50°43′20″N 1°17′16″W / 50.7223°N 1.2879°W |
Owned by | Southern Railway (1923 to 1948) Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966) |
Managed by | Cowes and Newport Railway (1879-1887) Isle of Wight Central Railway (1862 to 1923) |
Platforms | 1 |
Key dates | |
Poss 1879; def 1905 | Opened |
21 February 1966 | Closed |
Cement Mills Halt was a railway station between Cowes and Newport on the Isle of Wight. It was a public railway station throughout its life, although principally used by workers at the cement works in Stag Lane.[1] It was not included on public time tables[2] but was available to ramblers visible enough on the primitive gas-lit platform to stop the train "on request".[3] The trackway is now part of a national cycle route.[4]
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Newport | British Rail Southern Region IoW CR : Newport to Cowes line |
Medina Wharf |
West Medina Cement Works
Cement Mills Halt primarily served the West Medina Cement Works,[5] which was owned and operated by Francis and Company Cement Manufacturers. Near the village of Northwood, was the extensive cement works of Messrs. Francis, Son, & Co., of Nine Elms, London, who employed about 100 people at the West Medina Cement Works in the manufacture of Portland and Medina cements.[6] The Francis Co. had the contract to supply all the Portland cement for the construction of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse.[7]
References
- ^ Location on Street Map Archived 24 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Enthusists web-site
- ^ Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-947971-62-9
- ^ Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 0-86093-537-X
- ^ Cement Plant Website
- ^ White, William (1878). History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire (2nd ed.). Sheffield: William White. p. 337.
- ^ Douglass, William Tregarthen (1884). "The New Eddystone Lighthouse, with Discussion". Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Vol. vol. 75, part 1. London: Institution of Civil Engineers. pp. 20–60.
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