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« Reply #105 on: July 05, 2019, 17:09:14 »
Back online now

https://twitter.com/DCRailPart/status/1146372877299716096
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« Reply #106 on: September 19, 2019, 21:24:30 »
In use earlier this week, several reports that it has been full at times over the summer months.





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« Reply #107 on: September 19, 2019, 23:36:10 »
Looks like lovely weather down that way.

Must find an excuse to travel from Snerth to Snives by train again soon.
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« Reply #108 on: September 23, 2019, 22:59:22 »
Quote from: bignosemac on September 19, 2019, 23:36:10
Looks like lovely weather down that way.

Must find an excuse to travel from Snerth to Snives by train again soon.

Or do you mean change at Sterth for Stives?
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« Reply #109 on: October 16, 2019, 18:49:01 »
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More people have been recorded travelling on Cornwall’s trains to St Ives this summer than any other year. Following the opening of the St Erth Park and Ride in June, 406,000 journeys have been made on the St Ives Bay Line, nearly 89,000 more than last year, an increase of 28%   
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« Reply #110 on: December 30, 2019, 22:21:23 »
Odds and ends associated with this project continue to be completed. I was at St Erth yesterday (29 Dec 2019) waiting for the 1626 up IET▸ (Intercity Express Train) to Truro. The new high intensity LED lighting on the platforms installed intermittently over the autumn is superb. The throw across the platform area that each post is designed to cover is as near as perfect as far as I could see as night fell. A tremendous improvement.
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« Reply #111 on: December 30, 2019, 22:24:35 »
Quote from: RailCornwall on December 30, 2019, 22:21:23
Odds and ends associated with this project continue to be completed. I was at St Erth yesterday (29 Dec 2019) waiting for the 1626 up IET▸ (Intercity Express Train) to Truro. The new high intensity LED lighting on the platforms installed intermittently over the autumn is superb. The throw across the platform area that each post is designed to cover is as near as perfect as far as I could see as night fell. A tremendous improvement.

Thats interesting.  Must have a look at that soon.  Does it throw much light pollution like the local street lighting around here does?
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« Reply #112 on: December 31, 2019, 21:42:05 »
Light pollution is indeed significantly less, indeed Cornwall Council has been replacing light polluting sodium street lamps with more directional white light ones too. More recently the MOD have also replaced large sections of the offending perimeter security lighting at RNAS Culdrose with similar highly directional, less offensive, focussed white light lamps.
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« Reply #113 on: January 30, 2021, 16:59:08 »
Been investigating this, this weekend.

Lots of Planning resources here from Cornwall Council. Approved last Spring.

https://planning.cornwall.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=Q5W2DDFGL2M00

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1. Lift on down platform side to have additional entrance from the new P&R▸ (Park and Ride) car park.
2. Temporary Bridge whilst construction in progress at extreme eastern end of the Station.
3. Considerable discourse on finish to new structure in the planning process.
4. Old Bridge to be used in Somerset, presumably on the Minehead line.


 
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« Reply #114 on: January 30, 2021, 23:14:30 »
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4. Old Bridge to be used in Somerset, presumably on the Minehead line.

Looks like the bridge is intended to go to Cranmore on the East Somerset Railway where the second platform is being rebuilt.

See page 38 of the Heritage Impact Statement.

https://planning.cornwall.gov.uk/online-applications/files/70BC32F83ECA0AB85153492959BDF99B/pdf/PA20_01458-ST_ERTH_HERITAGE_IMPACT_STATEMENT-4857142.pdf
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« Reply #115 on: September 10, 2023, 19:58:52 »
Work begins on the new St Erth footbridge


https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/work-begins-to-bring-step-free-access-to-st-erth
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« Reply #116 on: September 10, 2023, 20:27:32 »
"Work is underway to make St Erth station in West Cornwall fully accessible for the first time."

*Paddington hard stare at barrow crossings generally*

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« Reply #117 on: September 11, 2023, 02:25:25 »
Could not find out the cost of the bridge would any one know the approx cost?
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« Reply #118 on: September 11, 2023, 08:25:58 »
At Maiden Newton we all used the barrow crossing more often than not. Then the box closed and some time after they removed the crossing.
However, common sense took over and it was reinstated.
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« Reply #119 on: September 11, 2023, 13:43:24 »
Good that work is starting on this very long running project.

Pleased that the current bridge is going to be reused at Cranmore on the East Somerset Railway.
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