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Isle of Wight railway milages

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341o2

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Total length of line 5 1/2 miles,

Wootton to Havenstreet 1 1/2 miles
 

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Smallbrook Jn to Ashey - 1m 54c
Ashey to Haven Street - 1m 44c
Haven Street to Wootton - 1m 41c (to the buffers)
 

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Nice to see good ol' imperial units. From a recent visit, Ashey seemed to be midway between Smallbrook and Havenstreet.

for the benefit of members who may not be familiar, a chain is an Imperial unit of measurement being 66 feet or 22 yards, there are 80 chains to the mile

however, this does throw the Wikipedia mileage of 5 1/2 into doubt? The other source was that originally the IOWSR operated between Wootton and Havenstreet, a distance of 1 1/2 miles
 
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