St Helens railway station (Isle of Wight)

St Helen's with its 232-foot-long (71 m) single platform[1] was the only intermediate stop on the 2+3⁄4-mile (4.4 km) branch line that connected Brading to the coast at Bembridge.

[4] Pomeroy[5] described the station thus: An imposing structure with tall chimneys and elegant dormers, particularly pleasing to the eye.

[6]From 1885 to 1888 St Helens was the Isle of Wight end of a Freight only Train ferry Service.

In 1931 the stationmaster, Thomas George Clayton Weeks was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for theft and forgery of receipts.

He had created fictitious wage sheets for casual workers at the Southern Railway quay and robbed the company of around £3,000 (equivalent to £257,500 in 2023)[7] in four years.