Very little happening in Ryde today. At Esplanade the platform entrance was blocked off by red plastic ‘crowd control’ type barriers, although the PIS was still working, advising anybody who could manage to read it to consult the printed timetable and telling the time. There were four more barriers, blue this time, on the track: one was standing proud, but the other three had fallen over. Not much was visible at St Johns Road: several of the old trains were still sitting around the yard and there appears to be a warning for a TSR at the south end of the southbound platform. Of human life was there none except in Esplanade booking office.