Medina Wharf Halt railway station
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Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
that provided a way for workers at the nearby wharf to get to work before the road was laid. No shelter for its few passengers was ever provided and it never appeared on a public timetable . The trackway is now part of NCN route 23 . Additionally, a non passenger carrying coal train transported coal from the siding via the halt to Ryde. After 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...
took over from the IoWCR
Isle of Wight Central Railway
The Isle of Wight Central Railway was a railway company on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. At its peak the company owned 21½ miles of railway line, and it also operated trains on some additional lines it did not own. Trains were first run on what became its lines in 1862, although the company...
the whole complex was extensively rebuilt. After the closure of the passenger stations in 1966 freight traffic continued for about a year until the track was lifted in the early 1970s .