Ryde St John's Road railway station

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,[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.

Ryde St John's Road
Location	Ryde, Isle of Wight England
Grid reference	SZ596919
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	RYR
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Isle of Wight Railway
Pre-grouping	Isle of Wight Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
23 August 1864	Opened as Ryde
5 April 1880	Renamed Ryde St John's Road
1 January 1967	Closed for electrification
20 March 1967	Reopened
1 January 2021	Closed for re-electrification
1 April 2021	Reopened
Passengers
2015/16	0.180 million
2016/17	0.180 million
2017/18	0.157 million
2018/19	0.132 million
2019/20	0.116 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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,[2][3] 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.[4]

Gallery

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  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

1. "Ryde Pier celebrates 200TH Anniversary" (PDF). Ryde Social Heritage Group. July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
2. "Is the future trams and steam trains into Ryde?". Island Echo. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
3. "Steaming back to Ryde after 50 years? Rail.co.uk assesses the plan and gives its verdict". Rail.co.uk. 18 January 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
4. GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14, Table 167

External links

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