Ryde Pier Head railway station

Ryde Pier Head
Ryde Pier Head
Location
Place	Ryde
Local authority	Isle of Wight
Operations
Station code	RYP
Managed by	Island Line Trains
Number of platforms	1
	Live arrivals/departures and station information; from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	121,387
2005/06 *	116,812
2006/07 *	149,226
2007/08 *	193,718
2008/09 *	210,604
2009/10 *	230,650
History
	Opened 12 July 1880
	National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
	* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ryde Pier Head from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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A 1945 Ordnance Survey of Ryde showing the location of the Ryde Pier Head, Ryde Esplanade and Ryde St John's Road stations

Ryde Pier Head railway station is one of three stations in the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Situated at the end of the town's pier, it is adjacent to the terminal for the Wightlink fast catamaran service connecting the island with Portsmouth on the UK mainland. Passengers can use this to connect with the rest of the National Rail network at Portsmouth Harbour station, which is adjacent to the Portsmouth terminal. Through rail tickets for travel via Pier Head station are available to and from other stations on the Isle of Wight. These include travel on the catamaran service to or from Portsmouth as appropriate.

Trains run down the eastern coast of the Isle of Wight to Shanklin (the Island Line), the last remnant of a network of railways on the island. Because of the restricted loading gauge, particularly through the tunnel under Ryde, services are operated by Class 483s (London Underground 1938 Stock).

The station originally consisted of three platforms in the form of a pair of islands; a fourth track was added later, opening in 1933.^[1] The station was rebuilt on electrification of the remaining line in 1967, and the new layout consisted of two tracks with three platform faces. One of these tracks is now out of use, so only one platform currently operates. This is the track which runs along the western side of the pier; a double track section commences immediately to the south of Ryde Esplanade railway station.

The ticket office at the station is run by Wightlink^[2] and not Island Line Trains.

[edit] Services

Trains run to Shanklin twice per hour during most of the day. This is reduced to hourly on Sunday mornings off-season, very early mornings and late evenings. Certain trains only travel as far as St John's Road. There are no overnight trains. Because of the location of passing loops on the Island Line, services run at 20/40 minute intervals.

Wightlink passenger ferry services run every 30 minutes for most of the day, reduced to hourly in the early afternoons and off-season Sunday mornings.