St Erth station: the country junction that time forgot

[editor]

I love this station:

Full timber canopies - check
Large booking office - check
GWR covered footbridge - check
Signal box - check
Branch line platform - check
Loads of luvverly semaphore signals - check
Points galore - check

It has to be one of the best preserved branch line junctions on any main line.

More: http://www.urban75.org/blog/st-erth-for-st-ives-railway-station-a-country-junction/
Even more: http://www.urban75.org/railway/st-erth-railway-station-cornwall.html

 

[pommie]

A nice little locally-run refreshement room as well, as I recall from my visit there 18 months ago. And the night sleeper train stops there to boot.

 

[editor]

There's talk of moving a restored carriage in to the goods bay and using that as a restaurant.

 

[Libertad]

'Kinell ed, you could've just handed me the t-shirt and saved on the postage

 

[Ground Elder]

I often get the train from St.Erth rather than Penzance, just so I can pretend I'm living in the 1950s.

 

[Yetman]

Train station spotter?

 

[Onket]

I got a pair of these for Christmas.

 

[Isambard]

*facebook thumbs up*
Your train pics really make U75 worthwhile Ed.

 

[editor]

Good work, campaigners!

Campaigners fighting to save a railway bridge in St Erth have welcomed the news that a planning application to demolish the structure was refused.

This week Cornwall Council rejected plans from Network Rail for the removal of the grade 2 listed footbridge at St Erth Railway Station to be replaced by a new bridge and lift structure.

St Erth Parish Council, back by St Erth Resident’s Association, spoke out against the removal of the historic bridge saying it would ruin the character of the station.

http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Demolit...idge-refused/story-22842970-detail/story.html

 

[Radar]

Good work, campaigners!

It does look quaint, but I bet it's a pain changing platforms if you're in a wheelchair..

 

[editor]

It does look quaint, but I bet it's a pain changing platforms if you're in a wheelchair..

Pretty sure there's other alternatives available to flattening a 100 year-old historic footbridge, like the light-controlled crossing or a second bridge suggested by locals.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

I love this station:

Full timber canopies - check
Large booking office - check
GWR covered footbridge - check
Signal box - check
Branch line platform - check
Loads of luvverly semaphore signals - check
Points galore - check

It has to be one of the best preserved branch line junctions on any main line.

More: http://www.urban75.org/blog/st-erth-for-st-ives-railway-station-a-country-junction/
Even more: http://www.urban75.org/railway/st-erth-railway-station-cornwall.html

All its missing is something like a "Hall" or "Castle" with a rake of chocolate and cream coaches ready for a trip to London,
Bristol,Birmingham,etc and an example of the best steam locomotive built in this country for home use a 9F trundling through with a long goods train

 

[coley]

All its missing is something like a "Hall" or "Castle" with a rake of chocolate and cream coaches ready for a trip to London,
Bristol,Birmingham,etc and an example of the best steam locomotive built in this country for home use a 9F trundling through with a long goods train

http://www.docbrown.info/docspics/midlands/butterley/Pb192579.jpg
One of these standing in a shed not far from here

 

[toggle]

Good work, campaigners!

all sorts of interesting stuff at the stations along here.

was ahving a look last week, there's a scale of some sort built into the platform at redruth.

 

[editor]

This is what should be waiting in the branch bay platform:

 

[SikhWarrioR]

This is what should be waiting in the branch bay platform:

xa

That particular example of GWR pannier is a long way from home its in the livery of my employer when London Transport WAS London Transport and not third world transport unfit for london tfl

 

[Dogsauce]

http://www.docbrown.info/docspics/midlands/butterley/Pb192579.jpg
One of these standing in a shed not far from here

That's moved from Butterley, hasn't it? Can't remember where (edit: Wiki says Kirkby Stephen East). The thing that always seemed a bit weird was that it was newer than the working-order Class 20 diesel that was sat just next to it, a class that is still running today after fifty odd years.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

That's moved from Butterley, hasn't it? Can't remember where (edit: Wiki says Kirkby Stephen East). The thing that always seemed a bit weird was that it was newer than the working-order Class 20 diesel that was sat just next to it, a class that is still running today after fifty odd years.

The Class 20 one of the few really good first generation diesels that British Railways bought to replace steam

 

[Dogsauce]

The Class 20 has survived well because it's very easy to maintain, all the panels on the side open out, making access easy for fixing stuff. I expect there will still be some running in three years time, by which time the class will be sixty years old. Nuts.

 

[editor]

I think Id like a ride behind an 0-4-2 GWR best of all. They're lovely little things.

I would have loved to had a ride in one of these too:

 

[SikhWarrioR]

I think Id like a ride behind an 0-4-2 GWR best of all. They're lovely little things.

As stared in The Titfield Thunderbolt along with Liverpool & Manchester 0-4-2 Lion will be looking forward to a run behind the Greasley P2 2-8-2 when its finished

 

[CNT36]

Only downsides with that station is it gets cold and can smell a bit if too many people have been drinking Guiness. Got off there on Saturday and rode to Hayle. Some friend of mother's runs the cafe. In my old job I used to go in there couple times a year. Good cuppa.

 

[Ground Elder]

I know the person who runs the cafe Am I your mother

 

[CNT36]

I know the person who runs the cafe Am I your mother

Possibly! I went in yesterday and it was somebody else working there.

 

[two sheds]

Not sure whether I'm mistaken here but the 'improvements' to perhaps my favourite station, St Erth on the Redruth-Penzance line look to me to have fucked the (Grade II listed) station over completely

Planned Engineering Work and Disruption | Great Western Railway

Find out about planned engineering works, travel disruption and changes to Great Western Railway's published train timetables here.

www.gwr.com

It used to be a lovely little station with split-level Victorian platforms that were utterly charming. Last time I went through it looked liked it had been turned in to a major league fucking building site attached to a car park.

 

[editor]

Not sure whether I'm mistaken here but the 'improvements' to perhaps my favourite station, St Erth on the Redruth-Penzance line look to me to have fucked the (Grade II listed) station over completely

Planned Engineering Work and Disruption | Great Western Railway

Find out about planned engineering works, travel disruption and changes to Great Western Railway's published train timetables here.

www.gwr.com

It used to be a lovely little station with split-level Victorian platforms that were utterly charming. Last time I went through it looked liked it had been turned in to a major league fucking building site attached to a car park.

I've taken quite a few pics of this lovely station. It's a beauty! I'll be really fucked off if they ruin it.

St Erth railway station, Cornwall on the Great Western main line to Penzance - photos and history

St Erth railway station, Cornwall on the Great Western main line to Penzance - photos and history

www.urban75.org

 

[editor]

This is what they're doing. It's now a 'multi Modal Hub.'

The entire length of Platform 3 will be extended out towards the second bay line, creating a single bay for passenger trains, and a shorter spur for stabling other trains.

Planned Engineering Work and Disruption | Great Western Railway

Find out about planned engineering works, travel disruption and changes to Great Western Railway's published train timetables here.

www.gwr.com

Dyer & Butler completes platform extension as part of St Erth station upgrade

Dyer & Butler, a multi-disciplined engineering services specialist focused on essential infrastructure including airports, railways and highways and a part of M Group Services, has successfully completed platform widening works at St Erth Station Cornwall

www.railbusinessdaily.com

18th June 2019

Devon Weekend Ramblings Pt 2 Torrington Station Andrew Triggs

www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk

St. Erth Multi Modal Hub – Is it just a Car Park? Truro

An overview talk on the £14m infrastructure project, that improves access and capacity to West Cornwall through creation of a multi-modal transport interchange at St Erth Railway Station. The core aim of the project is to seek a reduction in the reliance on travel by private car through offering...

www.ice.org.uk

 

[editor]

This shows how they've got rid of the one line and extended the platform

St Erth railway station, Cornwall on the Great Western main line to Penzance - photos and history

St Erth railway station, Cornwall on the Great Western main line to Penzance - photos and history

www.urban75.org

 

[two sheds]

Yes, and this bit - the end of the branch line and little bit of an exit is beautiful.



I really hope I'm wrong but when I went through it looked like it had been levelled. I must be wrong if it's Grade II, but behind the station certainly looked like it was just flattened.

Eta: Ahhh ok if they've kept that bit, it must have been that I couldn't see it as I came through.

Ta - feel a lot happier about it now.

 

[editor]

So they've spent some money upgrading the branch line. And those lovely semaphores are still there

Thousands of extra seats to St Ives following West Cornwall rail upgrades

Passengers are set to benefit from an additional 2,000 seats per day on the St Ives branch line and a more reliable mainline in Cornwall following the completion of a number of recent improvements to the railway.

www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk