Great Western Railway CrossCountry (Freight: DB Schenker and Freightliner)
History
Opened
1867
Technical
Line length
79.5 miles (128 km)
Number of tracks
Double with three single track sections
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Old gauge
7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) Brunel gauge
Operating speed
75 mph (121 km/h) maximum[1]
Route map
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The Cornish Main Line (Cornish: Penn-hyns-horn Kernow) 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.
It directly serves Truro, St Austell, Bodmin (by a Parkway station) and Liskeard. It forms the backbone for rail services in Cornwall and there are branches off it which serve St Ives, Falmouth, Newquay and Looe. The main line also carries direct trains to and from London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Newcastle and Edinburgh.
It is the southernmost railway line in the United Kingdom and the westernmost in England.
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The CornishMainLine (Cornish: Penn-hyns-horn Kernow) is a railway line in Cornwall and Devon in the United Kingdom. It runs from Penzance to Plymouth...
There are seventeen disused railway stations on the CornishMainLine between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England. The remains of nine...
railway station (Cornish: Pennsans) serves the town of Penzance in west Cornwall, England. It is the terminus of the CornishMainLine and the southernmost...
passengers. It has five stations including the junction with the CornishMainLine at St Erth. The St Ives Junction Railway applied for an Act of Parliament...
stations since 1989 including two opened in the 1970s. These are on the CornishMainLine (between Penzance and Saltash where it continues across the Royal...
station (Cornish: Truru) serves the city of Truro, Cornwall, England. The station is on the CornishMainLine and is the junction for the Maritime Line to Falmouth...
into Cornwall and calling at Liskeard then most stations down the CornishMainLine to Penzance. The service from Penzance to London is similar but also...
Docks and Truro. Connections are made at Truro with services on the CornishMainLine to Penzance, Plymouth and beyond. Service in the 1960s was 16 or 17...
Redruth station (Cornish: Redrudh) serves the town of Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, and is situated on the CornishMainLine between Truro and Camborne...
Bridge, New York City Subway A breather switch on a TGV line An expansion joint on the CornishMainLine, England Briginshaw, David (2016-03-08). "British university...
(Cornish: Lyskerrys) serves the town of Liskeard in Cornwall, England. The station is approximately 18 miles (29 km) west of Plymouth on the Cornish Main...
construct a branch from its Plymouth to Falmouth mainline but lack of funds prevented this. When the mainline did open in 1859 the town of Bodmin was only...
Plymouth line. Great Western Railway (GWR) trains from London Paddington station either terminate here or continue to Penzance along the CornishMainLine. Other...
diverged from the Par - Newquay line at St Dennis Junction, and while one part of this branch continued to the CornishMainLine at Burngullow, the other ran...
Bodmin Parkway railway station (Cornish: Fordh Bosvena) is on the CornishMainLine that serves the nearby town of Bodmin and other parts of mid-Cornwall...
Western MainLine (GWML) is a mainline railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads. It connects to other main lines...
gives it a total length of 2,187.5 feet (666.8 m). It carries the CornishMainLine railway in and out of Cornwall. It is adjacent to the Tamar Bridge...
The Looe Valley Line (Cornish: Linen Nans Logh) is an 8+3⁄4-mile (14 km) community railway from Liskeard to Looe in Cornwall, England, that follows the...
Plymouth. Plymouth is a principal stop on the Exeter-Plymouth line and CornishMainLine; it is located 245 miles 75 chains (245.94 mi; 395.8 km) from...
Trains left Truro on the CornishMainLine as far as Chacewater railway station and Blackwater Junction, where the new line turned northwards to reach...
The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904. Introduced...
Rose-an-Grouse, and is on the CornishMainLine from London Paddington to Penzance. It is also the junction for scenic St Ives Bay Line. The village is four miles...
the CornishMainLine at Lostwithiel. Its main traffic was china clay. The company ran into financial difficulties and closed in 1880, but the line was...
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