This is not quite the end of the story: The steam railway continues to develop, adding new facilities and restoring further locomotives and carriages. Our Strategic Vision explains our future

Thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, our Train Story Discovery Centre opened in 2014, adding greatly to the facilities at Havenstreet station. As well as telling the story

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

The original station at Wootton, which closed in 1953, was situated in a cutting on the opposite side of the road. Volunteers attempted to re-build this but were thwarted by

December 31st 1966 saw the end of 104 years continuous operation of the Island’s railways by steam locomotive. Only the railway from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin was left operational.

The Beeching Report proposed the closure of all the remaining lines on the island. Despite a spirited campaign, the line from Ryde to Cowes closed in February 1966, followed in