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Have they thought of perhaps running some sort of shuttle service
from
Ryde Pier Head to Ryde Esplanade, allowing passengers to transfer to
other rolling stock? My guess is that this would not really be
feasible, however.

There used to be a tramway shuttle that did exactly that back in the
dim
and distant. The tracks were between the railway line proper and the
roadway out to the pierhead.

Something like the Hythe Pier Railway?

IIRC both utilised petrol engined traction.

You've still got corosion problems for a tram

You know, a horse-drawn wooden tram (I originally wrote wooden horse tram,
hmmm ... ) would be very much a touristy, novelty thing.

Already thought of.
The pier was opened in 1814 and extended in 1833, but attracted little
traffic from Cowes because of the long walk. Eventually the Pier Company
built a horse tramway, which opened between Pier Head and Esplanade in 1864
and was extended to St John's Road (then the terminus of the railway) in
1871. The railway between St John's Road and Pier Head was built jointly by
the LBSCR and LSWR and opened in 1880, though neither of the mainland
companies ran trains on it, which were operated by the Isle of Wight and the
Isle of Wight Central companies. The railway extension ruined the pier
company. and its property passed to the Southern Railway in 1924, which also
absorbed at Grouping the IoW railway companies. The SR converted the tramway
to petrol tram operation, but the tramway was closed, soon after the railway
was electrified, in 1969.

Peter