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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 English mainland.
Pier Head was a railway station on the Liverpool Overhead Railway. Opened on 6 March 1893 by the Marquis of Salisbury , it was located close to the landing stage of the Mersey Ferry , and next to the land on which the Royal Liver Building was built in 1911.
Ryde Pier is an early 19th century pier serving the town of Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.It is the world's oldest seaside pleasure pier. [1] [2] Ryde Pier Head railway station is at the sea end of the pier, and Ryde Esplanade railway station at the land end, both served by Island Line trains.
Bay platform at Nottingham station Bay platform at Greenford station. Bay and island platforms are so named because they resemble the eponymous geographic features.. Examples of stations with bay platforms include Carlisle railway station, Ryde Pier Head railway station, Nottingham railway station (pictured), which has a bay platform inset into one of its platform islands; and the San ...
The Island Line is a railway line on the Isle of Wight which runs along the island's east coast and links Ryde Pier Head with Shanklin.Trains connect at Ryde Pier Head with passenger ferries to Portsmouth Harbour, and these ferries in turn connect with the rest of the National Rail network via the Portsmouth Direct Line.
James Langworthy 1884 - 1894 [4] (also station master of Ryde Pier Head) William Percy Froud 1895 - 1905 [5] (afterwards station master at Portsmouth Town and Portsmouth Harbour) T.J.D. Russell 1905 - 1906 [6] George Henry French 1906 - 1930 (also station master at Ryde Pier Head, from 1913 also station master at Ryde St John's)
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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.