Island Line trains are suspended this morning (Monday) due to a signalling issue.
The network has been shut down all weekend to allow for engineering works as part of the multi-million-pound investment in Island Line.
The service was set to resume this morning, however, an issue has been identified with the signalling system preventing the safe operation of the line.
All trains between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin have been halted and are not expected to resume until lunchtime.
UPDATE @ 10:00 – Island Line trains are now running a revised timetable of an hourly service following the earlier issue.
South Western Railway says that the issue is now points related.
Services that are scheduled to run are:
xx:18 services from Shanklin
xx:49 services from Ryde Pier Head
is it trying to catch up with the floating bridge regards to not running
Take a few years to do that. 😀
Signalling or points failure…….? which one, or, do i pin the tail on the donkey? You see i recall the mystery of the lineside fire between Baker Street and Finchley Road delaying all Metropolitan line trains in about 1993?…….got home 1 hour late, no mobile phone to use then to phone family to inform, nothing on the travel news about it…..then the penny dropped……lineside fire? IN A TUNNEL!!
BIGGUS FIBBUSno doubt.Believe it or not line side fires do happen in a tunnel. Rubbish and debris can get caught around electrical equipment and sparks from passing trains can set it alight!
By the way points and signalling failures are very related – they connect together and it can be very hard to locate the exact fault at times.
I
m sure they do, the incident i refer to to though was, im certain, wholly made up. I asked the station staff the next day about the delay, it was staff absence. Just did not want to announce it.What’s the point of making the comment when it has nothing to do with the news apart from being train related??
I don’t know about pinning the tail on the donkey, but the way transport is on the Isle of Wight, you might as well ride the donkey,
A new relief road would serve everyone, not just a handful of train passengers far far better. No pollution or massive queues once EV take over soon. A win, win
My EV frequently gets stuck in queues – must be faulty!
Seriously though, not sure if the track bed is wide enough for a usable road.
Some places it is, but most of the bridges are too low at present. If you turned the track bed into a road, some of those bridges would have to go to allow lorries and double decker busses through.
Would be interesting to see the trackbed across Morton common turned into a road.
When EVs take over?? Where are you going to charge them??
In my case, at home. I’ve never used a public charger – no need to (over 8000 miles).
OK, if you can’t charge at home for whatever reason, there are at least 25 public charging points on the island.
And they’re conveniently located near places of interest so you can make the most of your few hours while waiting for your car to charge! Can’t be doing with those pesky petrol stations with nothing to do for a couple of minutes while pumping the dirty black stuff!
Isn’t the train an EV?
There’s always something with island line ! Is it even fit for purpose anymore?
Maybe that’s why they are doing engineering work and replacing the trains???!
Do you check the daily Southern Vectis service updates? Breakdowns and delays regularly but they don’t make the news, unlike every Island Line fault. Maybe accept the fact that with the current stock and infrastructure it’s getting increasingly difficult to maintain a reliable service. Personally i’ll reserve judgement until they have a crack at running a service with their new stock and track improvements.
As this line usually runs with just the one train lately, signalling would appear to be rather superfluous.
Although it will be sad to see these classic 1930s trains depart, let us hope that the new(er) trains with the promised track infrastructure improvements will give us the service that the Island deserves, and shut up those people who think that covering the tracks with tarmac is a good idea.