If you are a long-time reader of News OnTheWight you might remember an article from a few years ago about split screen videos that showed train travel across the Isle of Wight and how the landscape had changed over 60 years.
By using Google Earth mapping and data, Grant Selby created some brilliant split screen aerial videos of different areas of the Isle of Wight between 1945 and 2005.
Previously we’d seen Cowes to Carisbrooke and Newport to Freshwater, but we recently discovered that Grant had also produced a Ventnor to Ryde version that we missed before.
Plans to reinstate the line to Ventnor
Ventnor’s railway station was closed in 1966, but Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, has ambitions to see the line between Shanklin and Ventnor extended.
The Government have committed a share of £500,000 for a feasibility study to see whether it’s even possible.
That aside, why not sit back for five minutes and be taken on a journey from Ventnor to Ryde.
Article edit
7.55am 21st Dec 2020 – “a share of” added to detail about Gov grant
