Watchingwell Halt, was an intermediate station on the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, situated near the hamlet of Upper Watchingwell, that started life as a private halt. It was built at the bequest of Sir John Barrington Simeon, M.P for Southampton, in 1897, not included in timetables available to the general public until the creation of the Southern in 1923, de-staffed in 1948 and closed in 1953. It was, by its very nature, a sparsely used station.