Cement Mills Halt

Cement Mills Halt

Infobox UK disused station
name = Cement Mills Halt


caption = The Cement Works the Halt served
gridref = SZ 503917
manager = Cowes to Newport Railway (1879-1887)
Isle of Wight Central Railway (1862 to 1923)
owner = Southern Railway (1923 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966)
locale = Inlet, River Medina
borough = Isle of Wight
platforms = 1
years = Poss 1879; def 1905
events = Opened
years1 = 21 February 1966
events1 = 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 [ [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=450365&y=91655&z=0&sv=SZ50369165&st=5&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf Location on Street Map] ] . It was not included on public time tables [ [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/c/cement_mills_halt/index.shtml Enthusists web-site] ] but was available to ramblers visible enough on the primitive gas-lit platform to stop the train “on request” Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0947971629] . The trackway is now part of a national cycle route Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN 086093537X] .

References

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain

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