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St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station

Coordinates: 50°25′19″N 4°27′47″W / 50.422°N 4.463°W / 50.422; -4.463
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St Keyne Wishing Well Halt
National Rail
General information
LocationSt Keyne, Cornwall
England
Coordinates50°25′19″N 4°27′47″W / 50.422°N 4.463°W / 50.422; -4.463
Grid referenceSX251610
Managed byGreat Western Railway
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeSKN
ClassificationDfT category F2
Key dates
1902opened
Passengers
2016/17Decrease 1,530
2017/18Decrease 1,302
2018/19Increase 1,334
2019/20Decrease 1,070
2020/21Decrease 360
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station (Template:Lang-kw[1]) is an intermediate station on the scenic Looe Valley Line in Cornwall, United Kingdom. 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.

History

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.

Naming

It is one of only two stations in the December 2009 official National Rail Timetable (table 140) 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]

Facilities

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]

Services

153361 passes through on its way to Liskeard

Nearly all trains on the Liskeard to Looe "Looe Valley Line" stop at St Keyne 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 National Rail National Rail Following station
Coombe Junction Halt
or Liskeard 		  Great Western Railway
Looe Valley Line 		  Causeland

Community rail

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".

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". www.magakernow.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Coombe Junction - passenger numbers and platform facilities - ongoing discussion". www.firstgreatwestern.info. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  3. ^ "National Rail Enquiries - Station facilities for St Keyne Wishing Well Halt". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  4. ^ https://greatscenicrailways.co.uk/looe-valley-line-timetable/ [bare URL PDF]
  • Beale, Gerry (2000). The Liskeard and Looe Branch. Didcot: Wild Swan Publications Ltd. ISBN 1-874103-47-X.
  • Bennett, Alan (1990). The Great Western Railway in East Cornwall. Cheltenham: Runpast Publishing. ISBN 1-870754-11-5.
  • Clinker, CR (1963). The Railways of Cornwall 1809 - 1963. Dawlish: David and Charles.
  • Cooke, RA (1977). Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR, Section 11: East Cornwall. Harwell: RA Cooke.
  • MacDermot, E T (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, volume II 1863-1921. London: Great Western Railway.
  • Messenger, Michael (2001). Caradon & Looe : the canal, railways and mines. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-906294-46-0.
  • Tolson, JM; Roose, G; Whetmath, CFD (1974). Railways of Looe and Caradon. Bracknell: Forge Books.
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