Ryde Pier Head railway station

Ryde Pier Head
General information
Location	Ryde, Isle of Wight, England
Grid reference	SZ593935
Managed by	Island Line
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	RYP
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	12 July 1880
Original company	Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 January 1967	Closed for electrification
20 March 1967	Reopened
3 January 2021	Closed for upgrade works
1 November 2021	Reopened
6 September 2024	Closed for maintenance and repair works
Passengers
2018/19	0.204 million
Interchange	0.156 million
2019/20	0.181 million
Interchange	0.126 million
2020/21	26,300
Interchange	14,228
2021/22	68,646
Interchange	39,789
2022/23	92,786
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ryde Pier Head railway station is one of three stations in the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Situated at the end of the town's pier, it is adjacent to the terminal for the Wightlink fast catamaran service connecting the island with Portsmouth on the English mainland. Passengers can use this to connect with the rest of the National Rail network at Portsmouth Harbour station, which is adjacent to the Portsmouth terminal. Through rail tickets for travel via Pier Head station are available to and from other stations on the Isle of Wight. These include travel on the catamaran service to or from Portsmouth as appropriate.

Trains run down the eastern coast of the Isle of Wight to Shanklin (the Island Line), the last remnant of a network of railways on the island. Because of the restricted loading gauge, particularly through the tunnel under Ryde, services are operated by former London Underground stock.

The ticket office at the station is run by Wightlink^[1] and not Island Line.