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Years back, I was travelling down from Edinburgh to St Erth travelling over the West Coast Mainline in the days when you could, and got as far as Lancaster and held for a few hours. Overhead wines down on the way to Preston. We were reversed back through Carnforth, across to Long...

Falmouth Town was originally just Falmouth, and then became The Dell and then back to the present name.

Is Driver shortage one of the reasons that XC is pulling the Plymouth-Penzance section on the Aberdeen-Penzance route thus no longer having the longest rail journey in the UK?

I use Heathrow Express twice a year during my return for my annual holiday back home in Cornwall. On the return to get to Paddington to connect to St Erth, rather than the bus to Reading and then fighting for a seat and luggage space on an already very full train. This would be after a very...

"Bidston is horrible. Whilst the station itself is keot reasonably tidy and is staffed throughout service (helpful when trains go t*ts up) - it is in the middle of a field basicslly, and the approach to the station is ugly and strewn with litter. Whilst it isn’t remote by Dovey Junction or...

Hayle is not a station I'd like to be alone on at night but it's not a terminus but Falmouth Docks is another that gives me the creeps late at night.

I was present when I heard a Scotsman being asked by a Lancastrian, "Are you an Islander or an Islander"? It was honestly the sound that came out of the mouth. The Scot looked confused for a few seconds and answered. "Neither" and walked away. I suspect the question was 'are you a Highlander or...

I bet I could walk through the village quicker than it took you to type the name and correct it. It's about all the interest I can muster about the topic.

...and the new lifts/bridge at St Erth is taking an age too.

I did say, that the bus does go all around the houses to get from Truro to Newquay, but it's better than taking the train. Timing, especially connecting at Par from the West to the 2-hourly service is a lottery and there have been a number of times travelling West when I've heard announcements...

There are moves to re-open Plymouth Airport, but the way things move down in the far South West, it'll be another five years or more before it'll happen. I really wonder if the Metro will actually come off and if it does if it'll be a success. As others have said, times on Par-Newquay are...

A few people stumble into the English Channel and the Health and Safety brigade go overboard. Millions of people have walked along the sea wall without incident over the years since Brunel built the line. Common-sense dictates that is the weather is poor then you don't walk along the sea wall.

Another kick in the nuts to the Wirral. Transport for Merseyside is a much better and appropriate title. I can just imagine if Cornwall County Council decided to change the name of Transport for Cornwall to Transport for the Truro City Region. They'd be laughed out of office. It all reminds me...

The questions asked in posts 4-6 are what puzzled me. Why were staff telling the paying and travelling public that it was a problem on the branch line. A poster outside the station advised that tickets could be used on bus services to Falmouth U1 and U1A and to Penzance and St Ives T1 and T2? I...

Arrived at 11:30 at Truro Station to go to St Ives to find 70 or so people besieging the entrance. Why? No trains running at all. The reason? A broken down train on the Falmouth line. Now when I say no trains running at all, I do me No trains on the Up and Down Cornish Main line. Staff could...

I was going to have a shot of Vodka for every seat the Tories loose but as the campaign had dragged on I'm changing that to a shot every 30 seats lost. I might crack open a bottle of Champaign if Sunak looses his seat and that prime A*se Rees-Mogg fails to get back to Parliament. There are a...

Yes crowds and traffic in seaside resorts with narrow historic streets is a bore and it's a bore for we residents too. Tourists seem to forget that people actually live, work and run businesses in these towns and even though a place like St Ives, which as I said in my earlier posting were born...

I'll disqualify myself from St Ives as I'm almost a local and I was born and brought up within the Borough of St Ives. I could like others nominate Penzance but it's a bit "iffy" at times and really lacks a decent beach within the town, unless you count Marazion which isn't within Penzance. So...

The village has expanded with new housing around the Saltings and up in the Church Road area since the mid nineties. And the Saltings station has only two services a day now the St Erth Park and Ride is in full swing.

At one time, the Teesside Oil Refinery was owned by ICI. One of the fractions of Crude Oil is Asphalt and Bitumen. The Refinery that was once Mobil, and then then BP's in Coryton in Essex sent Asphalt to Frome in Somerset by rail. I know, In the 1970's I used to load and weigh the wagons.