Abandoned Marazion station in Cornwall - some photos

[editor]

Thought some of you might be interested in this feature I just posted

In photos: abandoned Marazion station in Cornwall – archive photos from 2003-2005 -

Seen in August 2005, this is the abandoned station building of Marazion, which was once the penultimate stop on the Great Western main line to Penzance. Opened by the West Cornwall Railway on 11 March 1852, the sole remaining building dates from around 1879, and served the station until closure...

www.urban75.org

Voley

 

[Voley]

Yes it's got an odd atmosphere of faded grandeur around there.

I'm assuming that 'submarine forest' is the petrified tree stumps. We've a load around there - Mounts Bay was a forest back in prehistoric times. It got flooded - some talk of a giant tsunami that created the bay/turned St Michaels Mount from a hill into an island

Bit off-topic, I know, sorry, the really old history around here is the bit I read around.

 

[existentialist]

Thought some of you might be interested in this feature I just posted

In photos: abandoned Marazion station in Cornwall – archive photos from 2003-2005 -

Seen in August 2005, this is the abandoned station building of Marazion, which was once the penultimate stop on the Great Western main line to Penzance. Opened by the West Cornwall Railway on 11 March 1852, the sole remaining building dates from around 1879, and served the station until closure...

www.urban75.org

Voley

3-axle bogies!

 

[two sheds]

Not quite relevant to the thread title but near as damnit is to swearing and this is all lovely:



A wonderfully restored and colourized film about beautiful Cornwall in the UK more than a century ago in 1916 (silent film). The film title is "The Cornish Riviera" by Kineto ltd. London. We see spectacular film footage of: Looe, Polperro, Fowey, Newquay, Falmouth, The Lizard, St.Ives, Penzance, St.Michaels Mount, Morrab Gardens, Logan Rock, Lands End, Caves, Allan Valley, Padstow and Boscastle. Timeline:
00:00 Title "The Cornish Riviera"
00:05 Looe
00:23 Polperro
00:58 Fowey
01:28 Newquay
02:12 Falmouth
02:58 The Lizard
03:05 St.Ives
04:00 Penzance
04:05 St.Michaels Mount
04:16 Morrab Gardens
04:32 Logan Rock
04:45 Lands End
05:27 Padstow
06:03 Caves
06:25 Watermill
07:16 Allan Valley
07:44 Beautiful Sunset
08:02 Aerial view
08:31 Rural scenes
09:15 Boscastle
10:03 Sunset and The End.

 

[Ground Elder]

I'm assuming that 'submarine forest' is the petrified tree stumps. We've a load around there - Mounts Bay was a forest back in prehistoric times. It got flooded - some talk of a giant tsunami that created the bay/turned St Michaels Mount from a hill into an island

The Kernewek name for the Mount is Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning rock in woodland (but you already knew that )

I miss the carriages, but was glad to see them rescued before it was too late.

 

[8ball]

Not quite relevant to the thread title but near as damnit is to swearing and this is all lovely:



A wonderfully restored and colourized film about beautiful Cornwall in the UK more than a century ago in 1916 (silent film). The film title is "The Cornish Riviera" by Kineto ltd. London. We see spectacular film footage of: Looe, Polperro, Fowey, Newquay, Falmouth, The Lizard, St.Ives, Penzance, St.Michaels Mount, Morrab Gardens, Logan Rock, Lands End, Caves, Allan Valley, Padstow and Boscastle. Timeline:
00:00 Title "The Cornish Riviera"
00:05 Looe
00:23 Polperro
00:58 Fowey
01:28 Newquay
02:12 Falmouth
02:58 The Lizard
03:05 St.Ives
04:00 Penzance
04:05 St.Michaels Mount
04:16 Morrab Gardens
04:32 Logan Rock
04:45 Lands End
05:27 Padstow
06:03 Caves
06:25 Watermill
07:16 Allan Valley
07:44 Beautiful Sunset
08:02 Aerial view
08:31 Rural scenes
09:15 Boscastle
10:03 Sunset and The End.

Very idyllic at 1:20. A lot of the other shots look to me like they’re setting the scene for something absolutely horrific, though.

To be fair, it was the middle of WWI...

 

[Voley]

The Kernewek name for the Mount is Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning rock in woodland (but you already knew that )

That's cool. I didn't know that, no. I love the idea of the sea rolling in and creating the island.