A journey in the faaar west - Penzance to St Ives - 28th Jan 2025

[whole diary]

[ChrisB]

- and if they're on the train back from St Ives, the number of loos on the train won't match the number of people needing them - and if they arrive at the site on the bus, buses do not have loos in the first place.

No loos at St Ives station?

[Mark A]

None at the station. About 85 in the arches below the viaduct approach in what would have been the station throat, that certain travellers might pass on the way to the station (they're not signed from the station itself and the step-free route to them is circuitous, particularly at this time of year as the high-footfall-circular-flow-enabling gate at that end of the station is locked out of use). They're not open all year round though.

I think it's the town council that provides the towns loos and have fairly recently made the decision to charge (40p, turnstile) for the very prominent ones at the harbour front by the lifeboat station. (The notice announcing this explained that loo-provision takes up an enormous proportion of the town council's budget)

There are a few others too, e.g at the pierhead.

Looking at Streetview, the ones up at Trenwith long-stay car park have transmogrified into a (closed at the usual times) cafe.

Mark