The UK’s Network Rail has announced that the Island Line on the Isle of Wight, serving the route between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin, will fully reopen on 2 May 2025. This follows a programme of ...

The Isle of Wight's Island Line closed in September 2024 for Network Rail and South Western Railway engineers to carry out ...

Following nine months of 'intensive and complex' repairs, the UK's only floating train line is finally set to reopen. The Island Line, located on the Isle of Wight, shut down in September last ...

Now, visitors can walk, drive or take the train to the pier head. Engineers have been carrying out maintenance and refurbishment works to make the pier and the Island Line "more resilient to ...

Network Rail Wessex’s route renewals director, said the team is ‘delighted that we’re going to be able to fully reopen the Island Line early and in time for the May Bank Holiday, which we ...