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Wootton railway station is a heritage railway station on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of the England. It opened in 1875,〔"Isle Of Wight Railways, then and now" Pomeroy, C,A: Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-947971-62-9〕 and was an intermediate stop on (successively) the Ryde and Newport Railway, Isle of Wight Central Railway, Southern Railway and British Railways. It closed on 21 September 1953.〔"Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight" Hay,P : Midhurst,Middleton, 1988, ISBN 0-906520-56-8〕 The line was re-opened as an extension to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway in 1971. A new station on a different site to the original was opened in 1987.〔(Subterranea Britannica )〕 The Railway received a grant from the LEADER project in November 2011 for a rebuild of Wootton station, which involved extending the platform, extending the headshunt to accommodate the Ivatt tank locomotives, build a replica of the original wooden station building that was at Havenstreet, install new toilets and construct the base for the signal box, which will be relocated to the platform. == Gallery == File:Crossroads at Wootton Common - geograph.org.uk - 519229.jpg|Station signposted at Wootton Common crossroads File:Signalbox at Wootton station - geograph.org.uk - 8069.jpg|Signal box at Wootton File:Wootonticketoffice.jpg|Ticket office at Wootton Image:The Isle of Wight RJD 135.jpg|A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wootton railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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