Isle of Wight
General Information
Generally reliable services covering much of the island |
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Southern Vectis | 
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| web | www.islandbuses.info | |
| description | A fleet of modern buses serve much of the island from hubs at Ryde, Newport, Yarmouth and Shanklin. Individual journies can be quite expensive, but the period bus passes do offer excellent value for money, especially as they include the open-top tourist buses | |
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Island Line |  |
| web | www.southwesttrains.co.uk/island-line.aspx | |
| description | Services are provided by some historic London Underground carriages that have retired to the seaside. Due to the number of single track sections the services are a bit irregular, but this is a fully fledged part of the National Rail Network. | |
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Red Funnel and Wightlink | 
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| web | www.redfunnel.co.uk and www.wightlink.co.uk | |
| description | Linking the island to the mainland with regular services. Services run from Yarmouth, Cowes, Fishbourne and Ryde to ports along the Hampshire coast | |
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Hovertravel | 
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| web | www.hovertravel.co.uk | |
| description | The last surviving scheduled hover craft service, links Ryde with Southsea near Portsmouth with regualr crossings, by some way the fastest link to the island | |