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Dist:0.1km<br/>View towards Newport from up on the old station platform.
©Gareth James
Dist:0.1km<br/>Merstone station start of the Troll trail part of National cycleway network route 23
©Shaun Ferguson
Dist:0.1km<br/>A sign states at Marstone Stastion that this section of NCN 23 is known as the Troll Trail due to rumours of Trolls living under the cycle track bridges!
©Chris McAuley
Dist:0.1km<br/>A wood carved sign on the old Marstone station platform, with suitcases waiting for the next train, long gone!
©Chris McAuley
Dist:0.1km<br/>National Cycle Network Route 23 passes by, on the route of the line from Sandown to Newport.
©Gareth James
Dist:0.1km<br/>Merstone station on the Newport to Sandown Cycle Way, looking towards the Merstone Lane crossing.
©Chris McAuley
Dist:0.2km<br/>Just one of the network of footpaths, bridleways and cycle tracks in this square. The bridge leads from the Sandown to Newport cycle track onto a footpath across arable land. People seem to have had two goes at defining a line. The small woodland is not shown on the map.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km<br/>The path skirts the south-eastern edge of this field, heading towards Merstone. It meets National Cycle Network route 23 (on the old railway line) at the hedge at the end of the field.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.3km<br/>The route ahead went to Sandown (now National Cycle Network route 23), and the route to Ventor West curved around to the right by the trees.
©Gareth James
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking north-west towards Newport, this is the former Sandown to Newport railway line now used as a cycle trail. The minor road crossing here still uses the original bridge, whilst the crossing in the distance by the blue horsebox (Merstone Lane) is a former level crossing.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.4km<br/>Two important and well-marked bridleways meet here. The path we are on comes from Pagham, and continues to the right to Merstone. To the left the path leads north and eventually joins with paths converging on Newport.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.5km<br/>Viewed from Budbridge bridge, the site of Merstone station is by the tall trees in the distance on the right.
©Gareth James
Dist:0.6km<br/>The bridge crosses the route of the former Sandown to Newport railway, now National Cycle Network Route 23.
©Gareth James
Dist:0.6km<br/>East Lane old railway bridge, now goes over the Newport to Sandown cycle route (RCN23).
©Chris McAuley
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©John Hardy

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