Ryde St John's Road railway station

Ryde St John's Road

Location
Place	Ryde
Local authority	Isle of Wight
Grid reference	SZ596919
Operations
Station code	RYR
Managed by	Island Line Trains
Number of platforms	3
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	160,891
2005/06	175,208
2006/07	178,869
2007/08	178,914
2008/09	190,796
2009/10	200,976
2010/11	240,046
2011/12	251,688
2012/13	229,450
2013/14	202,188
History
Key dates	Opened 23 August 1864 (23 August 1864)
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ryde St John's Road from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ryde St John's Road is a railway station on the Island Line, and serves the town of Ryde, Isle of Wight. The station is 1.25 mi (2 km) south of Ryde Pier Head—the Island Line's northern terminus. When the station opened in 1864, 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.

Depot and signalling

Adjacent to the railway station is Ryde depot: the Island Line's traction maintenance depot, where the maintenance and storage of the Island Line's Class 483 trains takes place. Since 1989, signalling for the Island Line has been centralised to the station's signal box.

Future developments

It has been suggested that the Isle of Wight Steam Railway might be extended from Smallbrook Junction to Ryde St John's Road in the future, but there are currently no official proposals.

Services

During the day Monday–Saturday (and Sunday afternoons), two trains per hour operate between Ryde Pier Head in the north and Shanklin in the south at twenty- and forty-minute intervals. In rare exceptionally busy periods services run every 20 minutes, with a handful terminating here. During the evening, the service on the Island Line is reduced to one train per hour in each direction.^[1]

Gallery

Viewed from the footbridge, looking at platforms 2 and 3, along with the depot building
Looking south from the station's footbridge; the Island Line's signalbox is visible on the right
Platform 1, looking towards Ryde tunnel and the northern terminus of the line: Ryde Pier Head
Ryde St John's Road station in 1971
Ex-LSW 0-4-4T outside St John's Road Locomotive Shed in 1954

References

↑ GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14, Table 167

External links

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Train times and station information for Ryde St John's Road railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Smallbrook Junction		Island Line Trains Island Line		Ryde Esplanade

Island Line, Isle of Wight

Stations	Ryde Pier Head Ryde Esplanade Ryde St John's Road Smallbrook Junction (steam operating days only) Brading Sandown Lake Shanklin

History	Isle of Wight Railway Southern Railway British Rail Class 485 British Rail Class 486

Other pages	British Rail Class 483 Island Line Trains Ryde depot Ryde Pier

Transport on the Isle of Wight

Places	Bembridge Airport Yarmouth bus station Isle of Wight/Sandown Airport Newport bus station Ryde Transport Interchange Cowes Floating Bridge

Operators	Southern Vectis Island Line Trains

Other	Isle of Wight ferry services Hovertravel Red Funnel Wightlink Cowes park and ride Railways Isle of Wight Steam Railway Island Line

Coordinates: 50°43′26″N 1°09′25″W / 50.724°N 1.157°W / 50.724; -1.157

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