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The Great Isle of Wight Train Robbery. London: The Railway Invigoration Society. OCLC 465874. Golden, Laurie (2011). Vectis Steam: The Last Years of Steam on the Isle of Wight. Hersham: Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-3642-0. Hay, Peter (1988). Steaming Through the Isle of Wight. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-0-906520-56-7. Jacobs, Mike (2010).
The Island Line is the one railway left on the island. It runs some 8½ miles from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin, down the eastern side of the island via Brading and Sandown.It was opened by the Isle of Wight Railway in 1864, and was nationalised in 1948, falling under the Southern Region of British Railways.
The Island Line is a railway line on the Isle of Wight which runs along the island's east coast and links Ryde Pier Head with Shanklin.Trains connect at Ryde Pier Head with passenger ferries to Portsmouth Harbour, and these ferries in turn connect with the rest of the National Rail network via the Portsmouth Direct Line.
The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is a heritage railway on the Isle of Wight. The railway passes through 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (9 km) of countryside from Smallbrook Junction [ 1 ] to Wootton station, [ 2 ] passing through the small village of Havenstreet , where the line has a station , headquarters and a depot.
System map of the Isle of Wight Railway in 1900. The Isle of Wight Railway was a railway company on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom; it operated 14 miles (23 kilometres) of railway line between Ryde and Ventnor. It opened the first section of line from Ryde to Sandown in 1864, later extending to Ventnor in 1866. The Ryde station was at St ...
This is a route-map template for the Railways on the Isle of Wight, a UK railway network.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
In 1872 a Freshwater, Bouldnor and Newport Railway was promoted; Bouldnor is a hamlet a mile or so east of Yarmouth; this venture was unsuccessful. [2] A parliamentary bill was submitted for a line connecting Freshwater and Newport, and this received royal assent on 26 August 1880, [3] [4] authorising the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Isle of Wight ...
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.. Newport railway station was established in 1862 with the opening of the Cowes and Newport Railway. It was enlarged in December 1875 when the lines to Ryde and Ventnor were opened.