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The reduced service, that was scheduled to end at 13:30, is now expected to continue for the rest of today. Who knows what will happen tomorrow and the rest of the week, thereby making it difficult for prospective passengers to plan with any degree of certainty. Meanwhile, Southern Vectis...

There is a reduced service on the Island Line today until 13:30. Only one train is operating meaning a service interval of, nominally, 1 hour & 20 minutes. There is ticket acceptance for Southern Vectis routes 2 & 3 between Ryde Esplanade and Shanklin, which operate every 15 minutes. Island...

When I visited a few weeks ago, the service was nominally every 1 hour and 20 minutes due to staff shortages, which seems to have occurred more frequently of late.

The current timetable is referred to as a 40-minute interval service. That is not correct, because although there are three trains every two hours, the intervals are 37, 44 & 39 minutes. Southern Vectis generally timetable a bus from Ryde to Brading, Sandown, Lake and Shanklin every 15 minutes...

The driver announces in a standard format the next station as the train is slowing down, thus, "Eindhoven station, Eindhoven". It works well, giving relevant information succinctly. The set number is displayed on the ends of each saloon and, when a train is about to split, the announcement...

The lorry appears to reverse across the level crossing much faster than normal walking pace, perhaps 8mph, so a pedestrian who starts to walk across the crossing just after the barrier closing sequence is initiated risks being hit on the head as the barrier on the far side of the crossing comes...