Disused railway lines and closed stations in Isle of Wight

49 miles of disused railway
28 closed stations
8 stations open today
14 named lost lines

Isle of Wight has 49 miles of disused railway and 28 closed stations, against 8 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.5 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway, with 12 miles of its route inside Isle of Wight.

See Isle of Wight’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 49 miles of lost railway in Isle of Wight break down as 48 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 0.7 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 0.6 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Isle of Wight

14 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Isle of Wight; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway	12
Isle of Wight Newport to Ventnor West Branch	9.2
Isle of Wight Merstone to Sandown Branch	5.0
Isle of Wight Newport to Cowes Branch	4.5
Isle of Wight Shanklin to Ventnor Branch	3.2
Isle of Wight Newport to Ryde Smallbrook Junction Branch	2.9
Brading to Bembridge Line	2.7
Isle of Wight Line	1.7
Ventnor West Branch	1.5
Newport to Cowes cycleway	0.9
Ashey Quarry Branch	0.7
Ventnor Tunnel	0.7
Island Line	0.5
Medina Wharf Branch	0.4

Closed railway stations in Isle of Wight

All 28 closed and former stations in Isle of Wight, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Isle of Wight

8 stations in Isle of Wight still have a train service. The busiest are Shanklin (146,234 a year), Ryde Esplanade (130,196 a year), Ryde Pier Head (129,184 a year), Sandown (81,918 a year) and Ryde St John's Road (53,256 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Hampshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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