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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.
Lymington Pier showing steam train and the passenger ferry Solent with passengers from Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight (1910) postcard. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [3] 2 tph to Brockenhurst; Until 22 May 2010, the Lymington Branch Line was operated as a "heritage" service using restored Class 421 4Cig trains. [4] [5] [6]
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [10] 2 tph to Ryde Pier Head; 2 tph to Shanklin; These services call at all stations, except Smallbrook Junction, which is served only during operating dates for the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
Sustrans National Cycle Network routes 22 and 23 have sections through the Isle of Wight, including off-road sections of route 23 between Cowes and Newport and Newport and Sandown along disused railway lines. There is a signed "round-the-island" cycle route primarily on road, as well as a 12-mile (19 km) on and off-road leisure route called the ...
Through rail tickets for travel via Pier Head station are available to and from other stations on the Isle of Wight. These include travel on the catamaran service to or from Portsmouth as appropriate. Trains run down the eastern coast of the Isle of Wight to Shanklin (the Island Line), the last remnant of a network of railways on the island.
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Brading station, 1985 A Class 483 train at Brading in August 2020. Over 80 years old at the time, these units were retired in January 2021 and replaced with Class 484 units later that year. Brading signalbox closed on 28 October 1988, and the passing loop at Brading station was removed, meaning that only one platform remained in use.
When the station opened in 1864, [1] it was known as Ryde railway station, as it was the northern terminus of the Isle of Wight Railway at the time. Rather than a railway, a tramway continued northwards to where the current Ryde Pier Head railway station stands; the railway was extended to Ryde Pier in 1880.