Blackwater railway station, was an intermediate station in the very centre of the island situated on the A3020 road on the line from Newport to Sandown incorporated by the Isle of Wight and Newport Junction Railway in 1868, opened in 1875 and closed 81 years later. A rural station whose “heyday was before the advent of the motor car”, during the inter-war years it was known for its large collection of enamel advertising boards.