St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station ( kw, Gorta Fenten Geyn) is an intermediate station on the scenic

Looe Valley Line The Looe Valley Line is an community railway from Liskeard to Looe in Cornwall, United Kingdom, that follows the valley of the East Looe River for much of its course. It is operated by Great Western Railway. History The Looe Valley Line was o ...

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. It serves the village of

St Keyne St Keyne ( kw, Sen Keyn) is a village in the civil parish of St Keyne and Trewidland, in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish lies between the parishes of Liskeard and Duloe. The parish population at the 2011 census was 492. The ...

and is adjacent to the "Magnificent Music Machines" museum of fairground organs and similar instruments. St Keyne's Well is a

holy well A holy well or sacred spring is a well, spring or small pool of water revered either in a Christian or pagan context, sometimes both. The water of holy wells is often thought to have healing qualities, through the numinous presence of its gua ...

dedicated to

Saint Keyne Keyne (; also referred to as Keane, KayaneJ. Meyrick ''A Pilgrim's Guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall'', pp. 68–69 Keyna, Cenau, Cenedion, CeinwenRay Spencer ''A Guide to the Saints of Wales and the Westcountry'', pp. 51–52David Hugh Farme ...

, located about south of the station.

History

The

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 w ...

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 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 onwar ...

Moorswater Moorswater is an industrial suburb of Liskeard in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately half-a-mile (0.8 km) west of Liskeard town centre.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' Moor ...

. The link from Coombe Junction to

Liskeard railway station Liskeard railway station serves the town of Liskeard in Cornwall, England. The station is approximately west of Plymouth on the Cornish Main Line and from via . It is the junction for the Looe Valley Line. The railway station is situated app ...

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 British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

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'.

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.

Services

Nearly all trains on the to "

" 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.https://greatscenicrailways.co.uk/looe-valley-line-timetable/

Community rail

The railway between Liskeard and Looe is designated as

community rail Community rail in Britain is the support of railway lines and stations by local organisations, usually through community rail partnerships (CRPs) comprising railway operators, local councils, and other community organisations, and rail user group ...

and is supported by marketing provided by the

Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership 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 serv ...

. The line is promoted as the "

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Keyne Wishing Well Halt Railway Station Railway stations in Cornwall Former Liskeard and Looe Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1902 Railway stations served by Great Western Railway Railway request stops in Great Britain DfT Category F2 stations