Sandown
The station building in 2016
General information
Location	Sandown, Isle of Wight, England
Grid reference	SZ593844
Managed by	Island Line
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SAN
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Opened	23 August 1864
Key dates
1 January 1967	Closed for electrification
20 March 1967	Reopened
28 October 1988	Signal box closed and functions moved to Ryde St John's Road signal box
3 January 2021	Closed for upgrade works
1 November 2021	Reopened
Passengers

2018/19	0.151 million
2019/20	0.123 million
2020/21	23,936
2021/22	46,860
2022/23	83,500




Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Sandown railway station is a railway station serving Sandown on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located on the Island Line from Ryde to Shanklin.

History

See also: Railways on the Isle of Wight

Sandown station is a double platform-faced through station. However, from the mid 19th until the mid 20th century it was a junction station, also served by trains to and from Horringford, Merstone, Newport and Cowes. These lines used to be run by separate companies, the Isle of Wight Railway (Ryde-Ventnor) and the Isle of Wight Central Railway (Newport-Sandown).

The adjacent land, which used to be occupied by coal-yards, is now a housing estate and the former Terminus Hotel pub opposite has long been a private house. The line from Ryde to Shanklin was constructed between 1862 and 1864, and opened to passenger traffic on 23 August 1864.^[1] The original station building was extended between 1870 and 1871 through the addition of a two-storey extension to act as station offices.^[2]

In 1923, with the Grouping, came the formation of the Southern Railway. This brought all the railway services on the island under one management, and considerable modernisation. At first, it did not affect the services offered, but eventually the line from Ryde gained a more frequent service whilst the Merstone line declined. One particular feature of the Merstone line was the School Train, which was subsidised by the local authority, and for a significant time meant that the line remained viable. When the line was closed, children from outlying villages going to the Sandown Schools were then transported by bus, the current situation.