[2] It opened over a ten-month period between 1888 and 1889 and closed 65 years later.

[3] A typical rural station [4] that rapidly lost passengers once buses reached West Wight,[5] it was one of the less economically viable stations[6] on this unprofitable line.

Despite the addition of a 400-foot (120 m) long passing loop and water tank in 1927,[7] the station was in latter years a somewhat lonely outpost.

The station house, situated on the "down" side, is now a private residence [8] and the modest passenger shelter on the "up" side their garden shed.

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