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The ferry from Portsmouth Harbour Station to Ryde on the Isle of Wight is operated by Wightlink. National Rail tickets between the Isle of Wight and stations on Great Britain include travel on the ferry. The Monday-Saturday off peak rail service in trains per hour (tph) and trains per day (tpd) is as follows: Southern [7]
The line starts at Ryde Pier Head station, [a] which is located at the sea end of Ryde Pier and connects with cross−Solent ferry services to/from Portsmouth Harbour operated by Wightlink. The station has an island platform with two platform faces and two tracks, [3] although only the western track (and thus only one platform face) remains in ...
Wightlink is a ferry company operating routes across The Solent between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in the south of England. It operates car ferries between Lymington and Yarmouth , and Portsmouth and Fishbourne and a fast passenger-only catamaran between Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde Pier .
Buses in this area for the most part either start/pass through Southampton City Centre (either Vincents Walk or Westquay/Albion Place) or Eastleigh Bus Station. [7] In the South, First Hampshire and Dorset run the First Solent brand. This runs mainly between Gosport bus station, Fareham Bus station and Portsmouth 'The Hard' Bus Station.
Train passengers and tourists bound for Southsea were then diverted to Portsmouth's main railway station, Portsmouth Town which was later renamed Portsmouth & Southsea in 1925. [3] A year later, the town of Southsea became officially integrated into the city of Portsmouth on 21 April 1926 when Portsmouth was granted city status.
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 routes were opened by several companies between 1862 and 1901 and modernised after The Grouping in the 1920s. Most of them were permanently closed between 1952 and 1966, whilst the 8 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile-long (13.7 km) Island Line [1] was temporarily closed in 1966 and rebuilt for electric train services, introduced in 1967. Replacement trains ...
Since the Isle of Wight was separated from mainland Britain, probably about 7000 years ago, [1] vessels have transported people and goods across the Solent. [citation needed] However the earliest record of an Isle of Wight ferry service is from 1420 when the Lord of the Manor in Ashey was responsible for boats crossing between Portsmouth and Ryde.