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"DW downunder" noname wrote in message ... "rail" wrote in message ... In message wrote: "rail" wrote in message ... In message wrote: 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 |
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