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The Torpoint Ferry is a car and pedestrian chain ferry connecting the A374 which crosses the Hamoaze, a stretch of water at the mouth of the River Tamar, between Devonport in Plymouth and Torpoint in Cornwall. The service was established in 1791 and chain ferry operations were introduced by James Meadows Rendel in 1832.
Great Western Railway Class 802 IET with a westbound Atlantic Coast Express at Par in May 2019. After completion of the lines to Bude in 1898 and Padstow in 1899, the London & South Western Railway (L&SWR) introduced the first North Cornwall Express in 1900 [1] [page needed] leaving London Waterloo at 11:10, and this continued over the next decade as the North Cornwall & Bude Express with the ...
The Cornish Main Line was originally built by two separate railway companies, the West Cornwall Railway between Truro and Penzance, opened in 1852, and the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and a separate station in Truro, opened in 1859. The West Cornwall Railway was itself based on the Hayle Railway, opened in 1837 as a purely local mineral ...
Cornwall was a famously successful high-speed passenger express engine of its period. Charles Rous-Marten reported an 1884 run from Crewe to Chester behind Cornwall (now far from new, and of antiquated design) at an average speed of 50.7 miles per hour (81.6 km/h), reaching 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) down Whitmore bank. [ 2 ]
Hovertravel is a ferry company operating from Southsea, Portsmouth to Ryde, Isle of Wight, UK. It is the largest passenger hovercraft company currently operating in the world since the demise of Hoverspeed. Hovertravel is now the world's oldest hovercraft operator, [1] and this service is believed to be unique in western Europe. [2]
The Tamar Bridge (background) and Royal Albert Bridge (foreground) carry road and rail links into Cornwall. The inland transport network consists of longitudinal spines (the A30, A38 and A39 trunk roads (though the A39 is no longer designated as such) and the former Great Western Railway main line through Cornwall) from which secondary roads and railway branch lines radiate to ports and ...
The Cornishman originates from the days of Brunel's broad gauge, first running in summer 1890 between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall.The down train left Paddington at 10:15, and called at Bristol at 12:45, Exeter at 14:20, Plymouth at 13:50, arriving Penzance at 19:50.
There is parking alongside this platform and at the end the car park is an old railway goods shed, although it is no longer used for its original purpose. [2] Platform 2 is served by eastbound trains to Truro, Plymouth and London. [13] The main station buildings are situated on platform 2, which is the one nearest the town centre.