| Ryde St John's Road | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Ryde, Isle of Wight |
| Country: | England |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | South Western Railway |
| Platforms: | 3 |
| Code: | RYR |
| Classification: | DfT category F2 |
| Original: | Isle of Wight Railway |
| Pregroup: | Isle of Wight Railway |
| Postgroup: | Southern Railway |
| Events1: | Opened as Ryde |
| Years2: | 5 April 1880 |
| Events2: | Renamed Ryde St John's Road |
| Years3: | 1 January 1967 |
| Events3: | Closed for electrification |
| Years4: | 20 March 1967 |
| Events4: | Reopened |
| Years5: | 3 January 2021 |
| Events5: | Closed for upgrade works |
| Years6: | 1 November 2021 |
| Events6: | Reopened |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Ryde St John's Road is a railway station on the Island Line, and serves the town of Ryde, Isle of Wight. The station is 1.25abbr=onNaNabbr=on south of Ryde Pier Head - the Island Line's northern terminus.
When the station opened in 1864,[1] it was known as Ryde railway station, as it was the northern terminus of the Isle of Wight Railway at the time. Rather than a railway, a tramway continued northwards to where the current Ryde Pier Head railway station stands; the railway was extended to Ryde Pier in 1880.
Adjacent to the railway station is Ryde Traincare Depot: the Island Line's traction maintenance depot, where the maintenance and storage of the Island Line's Class 484 trains takes place. Since 1989, signalling for the Island Line has been centralised to the station's signal box.
It has been suggested that the Isle of Wight Steam Railway might be extended from Smallbrook Junction to Ryde St John's Road in the future,[2] [3] but there are currently no official proposals.
All services at Ryde St John's Road are operated by Island Line using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
These services call at all stations, except, which is served only during operating dates for the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.