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An IWR monogram for the Isle of Wight Railway in the ironwork of the platform canopy of Brading station. Note this image has been horizontally flipped. Photo by Chris McKenna 04/06/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Only one platform at Brading station on the Isle of Wight is now used, although the footbridge to the former island platform looks to be in good repair. The sign advises passengers which direction the other stations on the line are. Until the 1950s Brading was the junction of the Ryde-Ventnor Town (now closed south of Shanklin) line with the completely closed branch line to Bembridge. Photo by Chris McKenna 04/06/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Looking south from the northern end of Brading station on the Isle of Wight. Only one platform is now used, although the footbridge to the former island platform on the left looks to be in good repair. Until the 1950s Brading was the junction of the Ryde-Ventnor Town (now closed south of Shanklin) line with the completely closed branch line to Bembridge. The restored station building on the open platform is home to a small exhibition about the station and railways on the island in general. There is a local group hoping to refurbish the buildings on the other platform and the signal box (out of shot to the left of the photograph). Photo by Chris McKenna 04/06/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Looking south from the northern end of Brading station on the Isle of Wight. Only one platform is now used, although the footbridge to the former island platform on the right looks to be in good repair. Until the 1950s Brading was the junction of the Ryde-Ventnor Town (now closed south of Shanklin) line with the completely closed branch line to Bembridge. The restored station building on the open platform is home to a small exhibition about the station and railways on the island in general. There is a local group hoping to refurbish the buildings on the other platform and the signal box (the roof of which is just visible behind the building on the island platform). Photo by Chris McKenna 04/06/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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The disused and overgrown signal box at Brading station on the Isle of Wight. The box was built by the Southern Railway at the junction between the Ryde-Ventnor Town main line and Brading-Bembridge branch line. Its fortunes declined in the 1950s when the branch line was closed and the main line truncated at Shanklin, it finally closed in circa 1989 when all signalling on the island was centralised at Ryde St John's Road by the Network SouthEast division of British Rail. Photo by Chris McKenna 04/06/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Looking north from the northern end of Brading station on the Isle of Wight. Now only served by a single track, this was formerlly a junction station between the Ryde-Ventnor Town main line and the Brading-Bembridge branch line. Photo by Chris McKenna 04/06/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Looking south from the southern end of Brading station on the Isle of Wight. Now only served by a single track, this was formerlly a junction station between the Ryde-Ventnor Town main line and the Brading-Bembridge branch line. The level crossing is where the footpath from Brading to Yaverland crosses the railway. Photo by Chris McKenna 04/06/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.