{"id":43885,"date":"2026-03-28T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43885"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:54:48","slug":"isle-of-wights-island-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/isle-of-wights-island-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Wight’s Island Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In April 2009, I visited the UK\u2019s Isle of Wight, arriving at Ryde Pier by ferry from Portsmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent two days making photographs under sunny skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At St John\u2019s Road in Ryde, I made this photograph of Island Line\u2019s former London Underground cars passing a vintage signal box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, these antique cars were the primary attraction. Built in 1938, they were among the oldest cars in regular revenue service in Europe\u2014a throwback to another generation. They made their last scheduled runs more than five years ago and have since been retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought the small widow\u2019s peak vent at the top center of the cars was a nice touch of Art Deco design on what was otherwise a utilitarian vehicle from an earlier era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Island Line class 483 cars approach the platfrom at St. John’s Road in Ryde, Isle of Wight. Exposed on Fujichrome using a Canon EOS-3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In April 2009, I visited the UK\u2019s Isle of Wight, arriving at Ryde Pier by ferry from Portsmouth. I spent two days making photographs under sunny skies. At St John\u2019s Road in Ryde, I made this photograph of Island Line\u2019s former London Underground cars passing a vintage signal box. For me, these antique cars were … Continue reading Isle of Wight’s Island Line<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[8584,8586,8583,8582],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Isle-of-Wight-Ryde-St-Johns-Road-April-2009-Brian-Solomon-661578.jpg?fit=2048%2C1351","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bpP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43889,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43885\/revisions\/43889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}