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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.
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.
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.
Heathrow Terminal 4 railway station; Henley-on-Thames railway station; Hereford railway station; Hertford East railway station; Hertford North railway station; Hexham railway station; Heysham Port railway station; Highbury & Islington station; Horsham railway station; Hove railway station; Huddersfield railway station; Hull Paragon Interchange ...
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)
The Island Line is the one railway left on the island. It runs some 8½ miles from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin, down the eastern side of the island via Brading and Sandown.It was opened by the Isle of Wight Railway in 1864, and was nationalised in 1948, falling under the Southern Region of British Railways.
Station (Town, unless in station name) Rail company Year closed Pickburn and Brodsworth: South Yorkshire Junction Railway: 1903 Pickhill: NER: 1959 Pickhill Halt: Great Western Railway: 1962 Pickwick Halt: GWR: 1962 Picton: NER: 1960 Piddington: Midland Railway: 1962 Piel: Furness Railway: 1936 Pier Head: Liverpool Overhead Railway: 1956 ...