Lineside Fire Risk and Advertised Timetable

Due to the extended period of hot, dry weather there is a greater risk of lineside fires.

A number of measures have been put in place by the Isle of Wight Steam Railway to reduce this risk, one being to work our locomotives less hard – a source of sparks!

This does mean that on occasions we may not be able to keep to our advertised timetable and we ask our passengers to bear with us.

Latest News

News

Ashey Station

Built 150 years ago in 1875 for the opening of the Ryde to Newport Railway, reduced to an unmanned halt in 1953 and sold into private ownership in 1968 when

Read More »

WE ARE OPEN ON THE FOLLOWING DAYS:

Skip to content