West Cornwall Railway






Dates

  /  /1846Hayle Railway
West Cornwall Railway
Hayle Railway absorbed by West Cornwall Railway.
  /  /1852Hayle Railway
Hayle [1st], Copperhouse, Angarrack [1st], Gwinear, Penponds, Redruth [1st] closed on opening of West Cornwall Railway. Alignments from east of Hayle to Gwinear closed and at Penponds closed. Redruth [1st] retained for goods, Hayle [1st] closed.
  /  /1852West Cornwall Railway
Truro Road to Penzance opened, including a portion of the Hayle Railway from Redruth Junction to west of Gwinear Road. Stations opened at Truro Road, Chacewater, Scorrier Gate, Redruth, Angarrack [2nd], Hayle, St Ives Road, Marazion Road, Penzance.
16/04/1855West Cornwall Railway
Extended from Truro Road to Truro Newham opened. Truro Road closed.
  /  /1859Cornwall Railway
Line opened from Cornwall Junction (near Plymouth [Millbay]) to Truro as Broad Gauge. Stations opened at Devonport, Saltash, St Germans, Menheniot, Liskeard, Respryn, Lostwithiel, Par, St Austell, Grampound Road, Truro. Truro to Penwithers Junction (to connect with the West Cornwall Railway) opened as Standard Gauge.
  /  /1863West Cornwall Railway
Truro Newham closed to passengers. (Cornwall Railway opened as Standard Gauge 1859, Penwithers Junction to Truro converted to Mixed Gauge 1863.)
  /  /1877St Ives Branch (West Cornwall Railway)
West Cornwall Railway
Opened from St Erth to St Ives. Stations opened at Lelant, Carbis Bay, St Ives. St Ives Road (the junction station on the West Cornwall Railway) renamed St Erth.
  /  /1887Helston Railway
Line opened from Gwinear Road (Hayle Railway, later West Cornwall Railway) to Helston. Stations opened at Praze, Nancegollan, Helston.
  /  /1896West Cornwall Railway
Scorrier Gate renamed Scorrier.
  /  /1896West Cornwall Railway
Marazion Road renamed Marazion.
  /  /1905West Cornwall Railway
Copperhouse Halt opened.
  /  /1964West Cornwall Railway
Chacewater, Scorrier, Marazion closed.
  /  /1971West Cornwall Railway
Truro Newham to Penwithers Junction closed.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.











D1025 'Western Guardsman' arrives at Redruth with 1A45, the 1225hrs Penzance to Paddington on 25 Aug 1975. Withdrawal of the Westerns was underway by ...
Roger Geach 25/08/1975
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Hayle signalbox in 1973. Once the Wharf line closed in 1982 there was little need for the box to be manned. In latter days it was only staffed when a ...
Doug Nicholls /04/1973
Cross Country Voyager 220029 heads east through Hayle, now an unstaffed halt. From the platforms there is a view across the Hayle estuary to the two ...
Mark Bartlett 18/09/2008
The start of the former Hayle Wharf branch, immediately off the viaduct and alongside the Up platform at Hayle station. This short goods branch never ...
Mark Bartlett 18/09/2008
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A Paddington to Penzance HST with power car 43131 leading, arrives at St Erth in October 2015. ...
John McIntyre 16/10/2015
A St Ives branch train departs from the bay platform at the east end of St Erth in October 2015. The GW mainline is on the right. ...
John McIntyre 16/10/2015
A Penzance to Plymouth stopping service arrives at St Erth on 16 October 2015. ...
John McIntyre 16/10/2015
A FGW Class 150 arrives at St Erth whilst working from Penzance to Plymouth on 16 October 2015. ...
John McIntyre 16/10/2015
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This was a two platform station. An 1880s station building still stands.
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A unidentified class 47 approaching Marazion with 1C30, the 0830 Paddington to Penzance service in April 1969. ...
Doug Nicholls /04/1969
Shortly after departing Penzance on a passenger working, 50 021 'Rodney' is seen at speed near the site of Marazion station on a perfect June day in ...
Mark Dufton /06/1984
150246, heading for Plymouth, leaves the single line section from Penzance and passes the site of Marazion station. The former station building, ...
Mark Bartlett 18/09/2008
Marazion was the first station out of Penzance and famous for many years for its Pullman car camping coaches alongside the sea. Opened as Marazion ...
Mark Bartlett 15/09/2008
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GWR HST power car 43092 and the running in board at Penzance in July 2018.
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John Yellowlees 14/07/2018
FGW HST power car 43016 has just arrived at Penzance with a train from Paddington in October 2015. ...
John McIntyre 15/10/2015
A dull and overcast Saturday morning at Penzance on 1 June 2002 as a First Great Western HST departs for Paddington. ...
Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002
A view eastwards from above Penzance station looking towards Long Rock in October 2015. The signalbox is below to the left of the track. ...
John McIntyre 15/10/2015
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