Date: 22/09/2022

Network Rail and South Western Railway (SWR) are set to begin a complex programme of vital maintenance and improvements on Ryde Pier, to keep trains on the Isle of Wight running long into the future.

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Work to preserve and improve the Island Line's historic Ryde Pier to begin this autumn

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Network Rail and South Western Railway (SWR) are set to begin a complex programme of vital maintenance and improvements on Ryde Pier, to keep trains on the Isle of Wight running long into the future.

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Class 483 EMU, of 1938 vintage, departs Ryde Pier approaching Ryde Esplanade heading for Shanklin on 29th August 2013.
Location: Ryde Pier Head
Company: Ryde Pier Extension (London and South West Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Joint)
29/08/2013 Alastair McLellan

The 15.41 from Esplanade to Pier Head can be seen over the sea in this view down the prosaically named A3054 in April 2018. The paucity of road traffic is unusual.
Location: Ryde Pier Head
Company: Isle of Wight Railway
01/04/2018 Ken Strachan

Adams 0-4-4T no 30 Shorwell simmers at the buffer stops at Ryde Pier Head station in the summer of 1961.
Location: Ryde Pier Head
Company: Isle of Wight Railway
16/08/1961 K A Gray

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