 It was resited during the BR era because of subsidence at the original site, it was also described in some timetables as Ashey for Nunwell.The station was opened by the Ryde and Newport Railway, which then amalgamated with other island railways to form the Isle of Wight Central Railway.Becoming part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the station passed to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.