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Alverstone
Alverstone is a village 2 miles from the east coast of the Isle of Wight, near Sandown.
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Alverstone Mead
Alverstone Mead Local Nature Reserve is a lowland freshwater wetland nature reserve close to Sandown, Isle of Wight.
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Blackout (wartime)
A blackout during war, or in preparation for an expected war, is the practice of collectively minimizing outdoor light, including upwardly directed (or reflected) light.
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Borthwood Copse
Borthwood Copse, near Sandown, Isle of Wight, England is a piece of woodland owned by the National Trust and is one of the numerous copses which make up part of the medieval forest which covered most of the eastern end of the Island.
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British Transport Commission
The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority).
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.
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Isle of Wight Central Railway
The Isle of Wight Central Railway (IoWCR) was a railway company on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
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List of closed railway stations in Britain
The list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the year of closure if known.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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Newchurch railway station
Newchurch railway station, was an intermediate station situated on the edge of Newchurch village Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, on the line from Newport to Sandown incorporated by the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway in 1868,Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight" Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 opened in 1875 and closed 81 years later.
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Newport railway station (Isle of Wight Central Railway)
Newport railway station was established in 1862 with the opening of the Cowes and Newport Railway.
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Newport, Isle of Wight
Newport is a civil parish and the county town of the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England.
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Railways Act 1921
The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.
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Sandown
Sandown is a seaside resort town and civil parish on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England, which neighbours the town of Shanklin to the south, with the village of Lake in between the two settlements.
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Sandown railway station
Sandown railway station is a railway station serving Sandown on the Isle of Wight, England.
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Southern Railway (UK)
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.
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Southern Region of British Railways
The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alverstone_railway_station
