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General information | |
Location | St Keyne, Cornwall England |
Coordinates | 50°25′19″N4°27′47″W / 50.422°N 4.463°W |
Grid reference | SX251610 |
Managed by | Great Western Railway |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Station code | SKN |
Classification | DfT category F2 |
Key dates | |
1902 | opened |
Passengers | |
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Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station (Cornish :Gorta Fenten Geyn [1] ) is an intermediate station on the scenic Looe Valley Line in Cornwall,England. It serves the village of St Keyne,and is adjacent to the Magnificent Music Machines museum of fairground organs and similar instruments.
St Keyne's Well is a holy well dedicated to Saint Keyne,located about 0.8 kilometres (0.5 mi) south of the station.
The Liskeard and Looe Railway was opened on 27 December 1860 to carry goods traffic;passenger trains started on 11 September 1879. The railway in those days connected only with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway at Moorswater. The link from Coombe Junction to Liskeard railway station opened on 25 February 1901 and St Keyne station opened in October 1902.
It is one of only two stations on the network to have the suffix "halt":the other is Coombe Junction on the same line. The term "halt" was removed from British Rail timetables and station signs and other official documents by 1974:the return of the term came in 1978 for the opening of IBM Halt in Scotland and in the renaming of these two stations in 2008.
The station name is rendered on tickets as merely 'St Keyne'. [2]
The only facilities are a small waiting shelter and information boards,including timetable posters. There are no ticket buying facilities,so passengers have to buy a ticket in advance or from the guard on the train. [3]
All trains on the Liskeard to Looe "Looe Valley Line" that are scheduled to call at St Keyne do so only on request. This means that passengers alighting here must tell the conductor that they wish to do so,and those waiting to join must signal clearly to the driver as the train approaches. There is no Sunday service in the winter. [4]
Preceding station | ![]() | Following station | ||
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Coombe Junction Halt or Liskeard | Great Western Railway Looe Valley Line | Causeland |
The railway between Liskeard and Looe is designated as community rail and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership.
The line is promoted as the "Looe Valley Line".
The Looe Valley Line is an 8+3⁄4-mile (14 km) community railway from Liskeard to Looe in Cornwall,England,that follows the valley of the East Looe River for much of its course. It is operated by Great Western Railway.
Plymouth railway station serves the city of Plymouth,Devon,England. It is on the northern edge of the city centre,close to the North Cross roundabout. It is the second busiest station in the county of Devon and the largest of the six surviving stations in Plymouth.
St Budeaux Victoria Road railway station is a suburban station in St Budeaux,Plymouth,Devon,England. The station is managed and served by Great Western Railway.
Liskeard railway station serves the town of Liskeard in Cornwall,England. The station is approximately 18 miles (29 km) west of Plymouth on the Cornish Main Line and 264 miles 71 chains (426.3 km) from London Paddington via Box and Plymouth Millbay. It is the junction for the Looe Valley Line. The railway station is situated approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south-west of Liskeard town centre.
Par railway station serves the villages of Par,Tywardreath and St Blazey,Cornwall,England. The station is 281 miles 66 chains from the zero point at London Paddington measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay. It is the junction for the Atlantic Coast Line to Newquay.
IBM railway station is a currently disused railway station on the Inverclyde Line,25+1⁄2 miles (41 km) west of Glasgow Central.
Looe railway station serves the twin towns of East and West Looe,in Cornwall,England. The station is the terminus of the scenic Looe Valley Line 8.75 miles (14 km) south of Liskeard. It faces out across the estuary of the River Looe.
Sandplace railway station is an intermediate station on the scenic Looe Valley Line in Cornwall,England,United Kingdom. The station serves the hamlet of Sandplace and is 6.5 miles (10 km) south of Liskeard.
Causeland railway station is an intermediate station 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Liskeard on the scenic Looe Valley Line in Cornwall,United Kingdom,which serves the hamlet of Causeland.
Coombe Junction Halt railway station serves the villages of Coombe and Lamellion near Liskeard,Cornwall,England,UK. It is situated on the Looe Valley Line and operated by Great Western Railway. All trains on this line have to reverse at Coombe Junction,but very few continue the short distance into the platform to allow passengers to alight or join the train.
The Cornish Main Line is a railway line in Cornwall and Devon in the United Kingdom. It runs from Penzance to Plymouth,crossing from Cornwall into Devon over the famous Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.
The Liskeard and Caradon Railway was a mineral railway in Cornwall,in the United Kingdom,which opened in 1844. It was built to carry the ores of copper and tin,and also granite,from their sources on Caradon Hill down to Moorswater for onward transport to market by way of Looe Harbour and coastal shipping. At first this was on the Liskeard and Looe Union Canal and later on the parallel Liskeard and Looe Railway.
The Liskeard and Looe Railway was a railway originally built between Moorswater,in the valley west of Liskeard,and Looe,in Cornwall,England,UK,and later extended to Liskeard station on the Cornish Main Line railway. The first section was opened in 1860 and was owned by the Liskeard and Looe Union Canal Company,whose canal had earlier been built to convey sea sand and lime up the valley of the East Looe River,for the purpose of improving agricultural land.
Moorswater railway station was the centre of operations for the Liskeard and Caradon Railway and the Liskeard and Looe Railway. The two railways made an end on junction here. It was the site of the lines' engine shed,also a china clay works which is now used as a cement terminal.
The Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership is the largest Community Rail Partnership in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1991 to promote the use of,and improvements to,rural railways in Devon and Cornwall,and also to promote the places served in order to improve the local economy.
Dobwalls and Trewidland was a civil parish in south-east Cornwall,England,United Kingdom between 1974 and 2021.
Terras Bridge,also known as Terras Pill Bridge,is a road bridge near Morval in Cornwall,England. Built in c. 1825,the Grade II listed bridge crosses the tidal East Looe River,and is adjacent to the Liskeard and Looe Railway and the remains of the Liskeard and Looe Union Canal.
The St Germans &Looe Railway was a proposed new railway in Cornwall by the Great Western Railway,providing a direct connection between St Germans and Looe. The railway was proposed in 1935 and authorised in 1936,and work commenced in 1937. By the time that war began in 1939 only a small amount of work had been completed,and it was abandoned. Had the railway been completed,it would have involved the construction of four stations,three tunnels and two viaducts.
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