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St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station (Cornish: Gorta Fenten Geyn[1]) is an intermediate station on the scenic Looe Valley Line in Cornwall, England. It serves the village of St Keyne, and is adjacent to the Magnificent Music Machines museum of fairground organs and similar instruments.
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| Location | St Keyne, Cornwall England | ||||
| Coordinates | 50°25′19″N 4°27′47″W / 50.422°N 4.463°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SX251610 | ||||
| Managed by | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||
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| Station code | SKN | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
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| 1902 | opened | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  1,334 | ||||
| 2019/20 |  1,070 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 360 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 1,500 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 1,524 | ||||
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St Keyne's Well is a holy well dedicated to Saint Keyne, located about 0.8 kilometres (0.5 mi) south of the station.
History
editThe Liskeard and Looe Railway 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 at Moorswater. The link from Coombe Junction to Liskeard railway station opened on 25 February 1901 and St Keyne station opened in October 1902.
Naming
editIt is one of only two stations on the network to have the suffix "halt": the other is Coombe Junction on the same line. The term "halt" was removed from British Rail 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'.[2]
Facilities
editThe 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.[3]
Services
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All trains on the Looe Valley Line from Liskeard to Looe that are scheduled to call at St Keyne do so 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.[4]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Coombe Junction Halt or Liskeard |
Great Western Railway Looe Valley Line |
Causeland | ||
Community rail
editThe railway between Liskeard and Looe is designated as community rail and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership.
The line is promoted as the "Looe Valley Line".
References
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- ^ "Archived copy". www.magakernow.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Coombe Junction - passenger numbers and platform facilities - ongoing discussion". www.firstgreatwestern.info. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ "National Rail Enquiries - Station facilities for St Keyne Wishing Well Halt". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ Valley Line Timetable [dead link]
- Beale, Gerry (2000). The Liskeard and Looe Branch. Didcot: Wild Swan Publications Ltd. ISBN 1-874103-47-X.
- Bennett, Alan (1990). The Great Western Railway in East Cornwall. Cheltenham: Runpast Publishing. ISBN 1-870754-11-5.
- Clinker, CR (1963). The Railways of Cornwall 1809 - 1963. Dawlish: David and Charles.
- Cooke, RA (1977). Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR, Section 11: East Cornwall. Harwell: RA Cooke.
- MacDermot, E T (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, volume II 1863-1921. London: Great Western Railway.
- Messenger, Michael (2001). Caradon & Looe : the canal, railways and mines. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-906294-46-0.
- Tolson, JM; Roose, G; Whetmath, CFD (1974). Railways of Looe and Caradon. Bracknell: Forge Books.
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