People travelling on the Island’s train network are set to benefit from a multi-million-pound investment after 3 train stations on the Isle of Wight have been given a fresh lick of paint as part of a company-wide upgrade scheme.
The £1.5million programme, which started in 2021, has seen 57 stations across the South Western Railway (SWR) network repainted both internally and externally in 2021/2022 alone and has now reached the Isle of Wight seeing the stations at Brading, Ryde Esplanade and Ryde St Johns get repainted.
Christian Neill, South Western Railway’s Director of Customer Experience, said:
“Advertisement t South Western Railway, it is important to us to offer our customers the best experience we can for the whole of their journey with us – and we know that that journey starts when they arrive at our stations.
“Our ongoing station repainting programme is just one way that we are trying to improve the SWR experience for our customers. We hope the smarter new look of the stations benefitting from this round of improvements will make their journey more enjoyable”.
A further round of repainting will start later this year, which will see a further 40 stations across the network refreshed.
however, the most widely used part of the route – ryde esplanade to ryde pier head is going to be out of action for months, because they were too stupid to include the work in the original specifications of the full upgrade that took place, which saw the islands railway out of action for about a year.
If you try to complain they’ll explain to you that it’s just a heritage line which means that, as far as they’re concerned, people only go on it for fun – not because they actually need to get somewhere.
You what ?
You sure about that, your not getting the steam train mixed up with south western ?
Reg.painting,
It is about time that Sandown station got a paint job along with its two subways, it is looking well grotty, along with the town.
Unfortunately, the upgrade money came from the DfT, the money for the pier is from network rail, so effectively 2 different pots of money. Although I do see your point, common sense would have been to have done both during the closure
who doesn’t like a bit of racing green. nice job.
someone will tell me it’s not racing green now!
FYI. As an old British Rail employee in the days of a Nationalised Railway, beware when ever they turned up to paint your station it meant it was due to close down