Ryde St. Johns Road (RYR)

Information
Type:	National Rail (Island Line)
Station code:	RYR
Opened:	1864

Ryde St. Johns Road is the headquarters of the Island Line on the Isle of Wight and also home to the line's depot. When the station was opened in 1864 by the Isle of Wight Railway (as Ryde station) it was their Northern terminus with passengers who needed to get to the pier taking a horse tram. The line was extended up to the pier in 1880.

Ryde St. Johns Road has 3 platforms but typically only 2 are in use with the main building on Platform 1. Platforms 2 and 3 are on an island platform with just a few shelters. Access between the platforms is via a footbridge. The Island Line's depot is next to the station as is the only remaining signalbox on the line [1]. It is possible the Isle of Wight Steam Railway could extend their services from Smallbrook Junction to Ryde St Johns Road though there are no firm plans at the moment.

483 004 departs heading for Shanklin

View South from the footbridge, the line's remaining signalbox on the right

The footbridge and trains at the depot

Ryde depot

Main station building

[1] R.J. Maycock & R. Silsbury, The Isle of Wight Railways from 1923 inwards (Oakwood Press, 2006) p. 239