The pier connects the 8.5-mile (13.7km) Island Line from Shanklin with ferries to and from Portsmouth. The whole line closed for a month in September, when work to both track and trains was completed.
Birnbeck Pier is the only pier in the country to link to an island Councillor Mark Canniford, North Somerset Council’s executive member responsible for the Birnbeck Pier project, said ...