Wootton was a station on the Isle of Wight Central Railway between
Havenstreet and
Whippingham. Now it is one of the termini of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
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| Ivatt Class 2 41298 runs around it's train at Wootton |
| Information |
| Type: |
Preserved Railway (Isle of Wight Steam Railway) |
| Opened: |
1875 (Closed 1953) |
| Re-Opened: |
1986 |
| Platforms: |
1 |
The station was opened by the Ryde & Newport Railway in 1875 on it's line between
Newport and
Ryde. The station had a siding for use by a coal merchant [1]. The station was closed in 1953 though the line through Wootton remained open until 1966. Part of the line was re-opened in 1971 as the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
However, Wootton station was not re-opened, the site of the original station is now a walking trail. A new Wootton station was built nearly two hundred metres away and opened in 1986 [2]. This is now one of the termini of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (the other being
Smallbrook Junction). The station now has a recreation of an Edwardian station building on the single platform and a run-round loop.
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| Buffer stop at Wootton |
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| View down the line, 41298 approaches |
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| 41928 prepares to couple up |
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| Running around |
[1] R.J. Maycock & R. Silbury, The Isle of Wight Railways from 1923 Onwards (Oakwood Press, 2006) p. 155
[2] Ibid. p. 263
