Island Line trains are once again operating a reduced service today (Monday) due to staff shortages.
Trains between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin are currently running to an hourly timetable. It is expected that a normal service will resume at around 12:00.
A staff member being ‘unavailable’ has been blamed for the timetable change – the same reason for a reduced service on the line yesterday.
Trains are currently departing Shanklin at XX:18 past the hour and Ryde Pier Head at XX:49 past the hour.
For further information or onward travel advice please speak to a member of staff or use a station help point.
UPDATE @ 12:24 – Disruption to the regular timetable is now expected to continue until at least 14:00.
UPDATE TUESDAY – There is continued disruption on Island Line today due to staff shortages. The disruption is expected to continue until 14:00 this afternoon.
Perhaps if you factored redundancy (sigh – not the sacking definition either – the duplicate definition) into the system then when ONE member of staff is ‘unavailable’ there would be another who could step into the gap and what is laughingly called ‘service’ could still run?
No chance of any of the white collars stepping in for the morning then??
If they won’t tarmac the line, then perhaps they could supply a free tandem cycle for both of their daily customers until the workforce is raring to go again?
Tarmac it so car centric individuals can abuse it?
Who pays for it to be tarmaced? The island tax payers possibly?
2 people? Nearly 1 million passenger journeys made on it last year, I suppose you never use it so assume it must be hardly used.
Lets put all these passenger journeys on the A3055 the line follows, let’s see how that pans out.
I have mentioned before which YOU clearly missed to tarmac the track and run shuttle buses instead of trains privately by the rail owners. They could use ONLY their buses and drive the passenger into the town, instead of dropping them on the fringes of where they ‘need’ to be, thus getting more customers.
NO need for high voltage trains, expensive to keep safe, just run battery powered buses, easy to drive, cheap to run and fast having there own private road to run on
THINK
Why would train companies run buses?
As soon as you put tarmac down you open up abuse by car centric individuals, if it stays rails.. No abuse can happen.
Tarmacing the existing route for buses and then using existing already gridlocked roads to get them from door to door defeats the object of rail, which is to free up the roads!
If you run buses, are the fares going to be comparable to Southern Vectis? So Shanklin to Ryde will cost £4.50 one way? At the moment it cost just over £6 return to the Ryde Pier Head from Shanklin on the train ( 30%-40% less if you have a railcard). While I’m mentioning Ryde Pier Head, how will you get buses up the Pier?
How many buses will be needed to carry the nearly 1 million passenger journeys made on islandline last year?
And when anything you want to replace it with needs a subsidy, unless you want to charge a considerable amount of money to use it, who pays for it’s future subsidy?
And should public transport be about profit?
Why would train companies run buses?
If you put tarmac down, expect abuse by car centric individuals, if stays rails no abuse can happen.
If buses do run, will the fares be comparable to Southern Vectis? £4.50 one way between Shanklin and Ryde Pier Head on SV, on the train its just over £6 return ( 30%-40% less with a railcard). While I’m mentioning Ryde Pier Head, how will buses get up the pier?
How many buses will be needed to carry the nearly one million passenger journeys made on islandline last year?
If after using the existing route for buses you are then using existing road infrastructure to get from door to door you are defeating the object of rail.. To free up the roads which are near to capacity already.
When whatever you put in place makes a loss ( unless as already mentioned you want to nearly double the fares on the route) who then pays for the subsidy to keep it running?
And should public transport be about profit?
Why be so abusive Az? you are the one who does your point no good. Your mindless bullying is getting rather boring and certainly unacceptable.
It worked in Gospot
The BRD is not anyway comparable to island line. For starters it serves a bigger population so the sustainability is there all year round.
There used to be a manager that did just that, step in to keep the service running. Sadly he has since retired.
Come on island line, let’s not fall to the crap service that south western has to offer. Yes we’re old but previous years we have had excellent track service (pardon the pun). Sunday and Monday excuse, how pathetic. I never got away with the dog ate my homework, so why should you?
A big thanks to the person who WASNT ILL but UNAVAILABLE!!! Hope you will be greatly inconvenienced this week in some shape or format.
There was probably more than one person that became unavailable for what ever reason including illness. I hope it’s nothing to serious or the ignorance of the comments will really show!
Surely a SWR/Railtrack employee could be seconded from the mainland at such time.
What a shambles,trains,staff,the whole line,there just a laughing stock now,it’s never ending
Now look,sickness can’t be helped,under the circumstances they do a good job,can’t help the trains they have to work with,when they break down that’s beyond the staffs control,so give a little praise,there there 98%of the time,
You don’t hear of many big companies unable to function because one person goes sick. Just island line and Wightlink! They have a monopoly so can get away with it unfortunately.
Well I have provided a solution, tarmac the track and run electric busses, these could use a low SAFE voltage supply to charge the bus battery any idiot can drive a bus. Not just men driving the now.
Are you implying women drivers are idiots? You need to be very careful how you comment aziz.
Take on more staff
Never as simple as that. Staff have to be trained. Also factor in maning levels are kept lower on today’s railway as with other companies.
Wouldn’t it be nice to get on a train from Sandown to Newport or Cowes to Ryde …… Oh we did once long ago.