With considerable help from Network SouthEast (then operators of the Ryde-Shanklin railway) and numerous other organisations and local authorities, the Steam Railway was able to rebuild over 3 miles of track from Havenstreet to Smallbrook Junction where an interchange station was built and opened on 20th July 1991.
The Isle of Wight Steam Railway now occupies about 5 miles of the old Ryde & Newport line, originally opened in 1875
WHAT IS THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ASHEY? Ashey station was opened in 1875 as part of the Ryde and Newport Railway. At the time, it was the only intermediate 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
The Isle of Wight Steam Railway (IWSR) is saying a fond farewell to one of its locomotives, which is going to a new home near Northampton.
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