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Hayle railway station serves the small town of
The main entrance is to the platform served by trains to Penzance, which is approached by a road from Foundry Square. A footpath allows level access to the other platform too, and this continues along the route of a closed railway track down towards the wharves opposite a bridge which leads across the water to the Towans.
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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. ...
, 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. 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 ...
manage the station and operate most train services.
It is 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 ...
north-east of , where the line terminates from . It is measured from via .
History
The station was opened by theWest 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 ...
on 11 March 1852 when it replaced the original 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.
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terminus, located in what is now the Isis RNLI
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Memorial Gardens. It was demolished shortly after the end of World War II
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.
During the 19th century, Hayle was a busy junction with goods lines running all round the town, many connecting from the embankment which is still visible behind the 'up' platform. However, the decline of shipping in the Hayle estuary
The Hayle Estuary ( kw, Heyl, meaning ''estuary'') is an estuary in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is one of the few natural harbours on the north coast of south-west England and during the prehistoric and early medieval periods wa ...
meant that these freight lines were no longer of any use and were closed in 1981. Hayle signal box
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was closed and demolished at the same time.
Station masters
*James Henry Walters ca. 1867 - 1874 (killed at after falling when attempting to enter a moving train) *Thomas Albert Williams 1877 - 1895 (formerly station master at , afterwards station master at ) *James Gale 1895 - 1897 (afterwards station master at ) *C.H.W Isaac 1897 - 1912 (formerly station master at , afterwards station master at Redruth) *Harry Jack Fisher from 1912 (formerly station master at ) *William Henry Harris 1926 - 1933 (formerly station master at St Dennis Junction) *A. Wingett 1933 - 1937 *E.T. Roberts 1937 - ???? (formerly station master at ) *W. Reynolds 1943 - ???? (formerly station master at ) *John Frederick Martin ca. 1950 *E.F. Bealey ca. 1959Description
The main entrance is to the platform served by trains to Penzance, which is approached by a road from Foundry Square. A footpath allows level access to the other platform too, and this continues along the route of a closed railway track down towards the wharves opposite a bridge which leads across the water to the Towans.
A camping coach
Camping coaches were holiday accommodation offered by many railway companies in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from the 1930s. The coaches were old passenger vehicles no longer suitable for use in trains, which were converted to ...
adjacent to the westbound platform offers holiday accommodation.
Services
Hayle is served by regularGreat 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 ...
trains between and .
References
External links
* {{cornwall, state=collapsed Railway stations in Cornwall Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1852 Railway stations served by Great Western Railway 1852 establishments in England Hayle DfT Category F1 stations