Camborne railway station serves the town of Camborne,

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, England. The station is from via . It is located on Trevu Road in the town, adjacent to a level crossing and the Railway Hotel. It has been in use since 1843 and is currently managed by

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. Services are provided by GWR and CrossCountry.

History

The

Hayle Railway The Hayle Railway was an early railway in West Cornwall, constructed to convey copper and tin ore from the Redruth and Camborne areas to sea ports at Hayle and Portreath. It was opened in 1837, and carried passengers on its main line from 1843. ...

opened on 23 December 1837. It was designed to move goods to and from local mines and the harbours at

Hayle Hayle ( kw, Heyl, "estuary") is a port town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England. It is situated at the mouth of the Hayle River (which discharges into St Ives Bay) and is approximately seven miles (11 km) northeast of Penzance. ...

and

Portreath Portreath ( kw, Porthtreth or ) is a civil parish, village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about three miles (5 km) northwest of Redruth. The village extends along both sides of a st ...

but a passenger service started on 26 May 1843. The

West Cornwall Railway The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, Great Britain, formed in 1846 to construct a railway between Penzance and Truro. It purchased the existing Hayle Railway, and improved its main line, and built new sections between Pen ...

took over the Hayle company on 3 November 1846. It extended the line westwards to

Penzance railway station Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance in west Cornwall, England. It is the terminus of the Cornish Main Line from Plymouth, from via , and is the southernmost railway station in Great Britain. The first station opened in 1852 a ...

and opened a new, more convenient,

Redruth railway station Redruth station serves the town of Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, and is situated on the Cornish Main Line between Truro and Camborne. The station is from via . Great Western Railway manage the station and operate most of the trains, with ...

on 11 March 1852. Later that year the line was continued eastwards to a temporary station at Truro Highertown, and was completed to a station at Newham Wharf in 1855. The station buildings have been replaced by some in the style used by the

circa 1900. The railway was originally just a single track with a passing loop in the station. In 1895 a second line was laid to the east, and in 1900 to the west. Goods sidings were originally laid on both sides of the station, with a

goods shed A goods shed is a railway building designed for storing goods before or after carriage in a train. A typical goods shed will have a track running through it to allow goods wagons to be unloaded under cover, although sometimes they were built ...

behind the westbound platform. The sidings on the north side of the station were removed in 1937 which allowed the eastbound platform to be lengthened. The sidings on the south side, along with the goods shed, were taken out of use in 1965 and this platform was also extended in 1980.

Stationmasters

*Mr. Rowe ca. 1853 *Richard Rowe Youlden ca. 1871 - 1880 *Mr. Evans 1880 *George Edward Davies ca 1881 - 1889 *Lawrence C.W. Reed 1889 - 1905 (formerly station master at Helston, afterwards station master at Llanelly) *Frederick Henry Cowling 1905 - 1909 *James William Marks 1909 - 1919 (formerly station master at Pewsey) *E.S. Prior 1919 - 1926 (formerly station master at Tavistock, afterwards station master at Falmouth) *W.H. Cowling 1926 - 1937 *T.C. Evans 1938 - 1948 *Arthur John Strong from 1948 *Leslie Wilfred Gordon Mott 1953 - 1957 *Claude Peters 1957 - 1965

Description

Platform 1 is for westbound trains to

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and

Penzance Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...

. There is parking alongside this platform and at the end the car park is an old railway

, although it is no longer used for its original purpose. Platform 2 is served by eastbound trains to

Truro Truro (; kw, Truru) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its ...

Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...

and

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. The main station buildings are situated on platform 2, which is the one nearest the town centre. There is a small car park behind the station buildings, which contain a booking office, café and waiting room with toilets. A

level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, Trail, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an Overpass#Railway, overpass ...

passes over the line at the east end of the two platforms.

Services

Camborne - GWR 150243+150126 Exeter service

Camborne is served by most

trains on the

Cornish Main Line The Cornish Main Line ( kw, 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 ...

between and with two trains per hour in each direction. Nine trains a day run through to with eight trains returning from Paddington, nine on Fridays. This includes the ''

Night Riviera The ''Night Riviera'' is a sleeper train operated by Great Western Railway (GWR). It is one of only two sleeper services on the railway in the United Kingdom (the other being the ''Caledonian Sleeper'' services between London and Scotland). ...

'' overnight sleeping car service and the mid-morning '' Cornish Riviera''. CrossCountry operate three trains a day to and from with one continuing to and two to . One train returns from and two from Glasgow Central; all via Birmingham New Street (on Sundays, there is one train to Edinburgh, one to Manchester Piccadilly and one to ). CrossCountry also provide one service in each direction from Plymouth-Penzance.

Signalling

Signals in the area are controlled by a

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at Roskear Junction to the east of the town, where the signalman can oversee an adjacent

. This was opened circa 1895 and contained 29 levers. The lever frame has been removed and the box now contains individual switches on the block shelf. Its signals are identified by the code letter 'R'. A signal box at Camborne station had been built on the eastbound platform next to the level crossing in 1895 and but closed on 8 June 1970, since when the signalman at Roskear Junction has monitored the level crossing at Camborne by

CCTV Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly t ...

. The reason for retaining this signal box was that it also controlled the goods branch line to North Roskear, but this closed in July 1983.

References

External links

*{{stn art lrnk, CBN Railway stations in Cornwall Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1843 Railway stations served by Great Western Railway Railway stations served by CrossCountry 1843 establishments in England Camborne DfT Category E stations