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.

Ryde St John's Road
General information
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 (1864-08-23)	Opened as Ryde
5 April 1880	Renamed Ryde St John's Road
1 January 1967	Closed for electrification
20 March 1967	Reopened
3 January 2021	Closed for upgrade works
1 November 2021	Reopened
Passengers
2016/17	0.180 million
2017/18	0.157 million
2018/19	0.132 million
2019/20	0.116 million
2020/21	21,058
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

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.

Stationmasters

Depot and signalling

Adjacent to the railway station is Ryde Traincare Depot: the Island Line's traction maintenance depot, where the maintenance and storage of the Island Line's Class 484 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,[9][10] but there are currently no official proposals.

Services

As of May 2022, there are two trains in each direction per hour during the peak and one during the off-peak. Services call at all stations except Smallbrook Junction, which operates only during steam operating dates and times, and only one service an hour calls at Ryde Pier Head. In addition, two early morning services and one late evening service operate with Ryde only, the morning 06:05 departure to Ryde Espalande being the UK's shortest distance rail service.

Gallery

• 
  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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ryde St John's Road railway station.

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Smallbrook Junction (steam operating days only)		Island Line Ryde-Shanklin		Ryde Esplanade
Brading