Carbis Bay railway station ( kw, Porthreptor) is on the

St Ives Bay Line The St Ives Bay Line is a railway line from to in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was opened in 1877, the last new broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in the country. Converted to standard gauge in 1892, it continues to ...

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, United Kingdom and serves the village and beach of

Carbis Bay Carbis Bay (Cornish: ''Karrbons'', meaning "causeway") is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic coast. The South West Coast Path passes above th ...

, a community that only adopted this name after the arrival of the railway in 1877. It is from via . Carbis Viaduct is situated on the St Ives (west) side of the station.

History

The station was opened by the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

on 1 June 1877 on their new branch line from to . The railway needed a viaduct to cross the small valley that carried Carbis Water down to the Baripper Cove. It was decided to build a station on the east side of the valley and call it Carbis Bay. The location proved popular with visitors and the small farms around Wheal Providence mine expanded to become the village of Carbis Bay, named after the station. The station buildings were at the top of the shallow cutting in which the station is built. Goods traffic was withdrawn in May 1956.

Stationmasters

In 1899, the former station master Richard James was sentenced to 14 days in Bodmin prison for begging after he had got into difficulty through drink and being found begging for alms. *John Tyack until 1885 *Edward Ward until 1888 *J.C. Richards until 1895 (afterwards station master at Marazion) *John Mann from 1895 *Richard James until 1898 *Josiah Martin 1898 - 1907 (afterwards station master at Lelant) *William Henry Pill 1907 - 1920 *E.A. Knight 1920 - 1924 (formerly station master at Brixton Road, afterwards station master at Drinnick Mill) *Mr. Roberts 1924 - 1926 *Henry White George ca. 1930 - 1931 (also station master at Lelant) *W. Harris 1931 - 1933 (formerly station master at Mary Tavy, afterwards station master at St. Agnes)

Description

The station is from St Erth. There is a single platform situated in a shallow cutting north of the road that leads down to the beach. It is on the left of trains arriving from St Erth. There is a small car park at the station entrance but a larger one is available a short distance away by the beach.

Services

All trains are operated by

. Most run between and half hourly, but some are extended through to .

Carbis Viaduct

Carbis

Viaduct A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide v ...

is a short distance beyond the station towards St Ives. It is built of

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

from a nearby quarry at

Towednack Towednack ( kw, Tewydnek) is a churchtown and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is bounded by those of Zennor in the west, Gulval in the south, Ludgvan in the west and south, and St Ives and the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

and has three piers supporting four arches, giving a total length of ; it is high.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carbis Bay Railway Station Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Cornwall Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877 Railway stations served by Great Western Railway DfT Category F2 stations