The Island Railway to the Coast - Newport to Sandown Part 1 Isle of Wights Railways 

Hi Ant, another all round excellent video, looking forward to the next. Your enthusiasm is entertainig us and keeping you fit at the same time. A whole production team combined in one. Thank you.

What a fantastic walk. The weather scenery and filming excellent. Beautiful place. Thank you Ant. As always …. outstanding video.

Thanks for another cracking trip so lovely and well put together,I always stop. What am doing and focus on it 😊

Beautiful video, Ant. Thank you very much! 👍🏻😀

love it Ant keep em coming mate Thank you.

Another great one Ant. I do love the interleaving of the old with the new. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for the super video from the Isle of Wight. Haven't been there since 1959 and the video makes me want to return. We had a day trip to the Island while on holiday in Southsea 64 years ago and took the train from Ryde Pierhead to Ventnor. It was the first time I can remember hearing a Westinghouse brake pump chugging away on number 33 "Bembridge" and what was left of the railways on the Island was all steam operated. The IoW steam railway have two locos that I have worked with so you've given me a great excuse to go and see them! Also to take a bike and ride some trails and see what's left of the track beds for myself. I just hope we can get some decent weather as it looks great in the video! Keep the videos going Ant, you're doing a great job.

So good,evocative music and new and old views,can't wait for the next episode.

Great vid Ant, good to see a lot is still visible.👍👍👍👍

Another great video. You implied that Shide station building was still there. It was demolished and a garage built on the site.

We spent some great days at the chalk pit in Shide, when the kids were little, I haven't been there since they grew up, so thanks for including it in the video.

Thanks for the video today. Another walk into the past. See you on the next. Cheers Ant!

Superb brick bridge

love the video , walked that line many times over the years. one mistake the train from Merstone to Ventnor did not go thought Wroxall only Godshill and Whitwell.

Great video Ant. Thanks cobber. Cheers!

Another great vid Ant . It's awful but I have never walked any of the old lines , so bad . Must do it . Guessing you avoided the tricky identifying of the railway in the center of Newport , it's a dual carriageway . All completely wiped from the face of the earth .

Another lovely video, Ant. Lovely stations. Thank goodness we have the isle of white steam railway!

Very good scenery - pity it had to close - thanks for sharing Ant 🙂🚂🚂🚂

Nice video thanks for all your work.

Hi, it always makes me think what people must have thought back then, what does the future hold for this place and thoughts like this.

Yes you are right. At 20:50 those gates are used to create a funnel for transferring livestock from one field to another. Looks like they are still in use. 🇨🇦

Ant, you really seem to enjoy making videos, and they are extremely enjoyable. But have a question: Do you consider "exercise" as a side benefit from all the walking you do??? Until your Isle of Wight video series I never knew how beautiful it was, what a place to live.

Great video Ant...

I walked the old line back in the early 80's. If memory serves me correctly Merstone Junction was much more overgrown back then, with the now tarmacked path being nothing more than a narrow path through the undergrowth. The platforms were also very overgrown. Very nice to see them still there 40 years on from when I walked the line. Will make one correction to the info you gave regarding the line splitting at Merstone, the line that went off towards Godshill was not the same line that went to Wroxhall. The branch through Godshill went south to Whitwell, then through the tunnel you explored previously to Ventnor West station. Wroxhall was on the line that used to continue onwards from Shanklin westwards through Wroxhall, then through the much longer tunnel under St Boniface Down, emerging straight into the main Ventnor Station. (The old track bed from Shanklin to Wroxhall is a footpath itself, but sadly the long tunnel under the downs is now locked up very securely.

Nice cross-country walk. Difficult to imagine that this section of the railway would have carried many passengers. Looking forward to the next stage.

Great video ant i am going to shanklin next year so going to walk old lines

Very good.

Forgot to ask: Do any of the rivers have enough "Fall" to have worked waterwheels in the past?

another excellent video what a lovely journey it must have been in it's heyday i would love to see it reopen again I am sure it would be well used do we know why it closed could it have been mothballed

I feel quite tired after that lovely walk, ready for my bed now?! 🧐

Ant,at 15.30 you mention that the line went to godshill,wroxhall and ventnor,wroxhall is on the shanklin to ventnor section,the line you mentioned went to ventnor west via st.Lawrence

Great video. Such a shame they closed all the railway network down. Would be worth its weight in gold today. Lovely music as well. Who,s it by?

As I leave the island as a child I getting to know the island and find a lot about it. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

A 'guy' is a stabilising wire rope support to the pole

Ha ha - "Overhead Guy" is the guy rope holding the post

If you looked carefully you would have seen the extant right of way boundary posts in the hedgerows.

The "Guy" that the sign refers to is a guy rope, or in this case, a cable.

Did you know that the North Door of Newchurch Church remains closed as the Devil is supposed to have appeared there.

Just a quick observation. Can you be a bit more slower with the camera. You seem to rush with some of the views. Especially when the viewer is trying to work out the old and new scenes . Kind regards Mark