Penmere Platform
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Penmere Platform by Stephen McKay as part of the Geograph project.
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Penmere Platform
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 31 Mar 2010
This halt on the Truro - Falmouth branch line is one of a number of Cornish stations to be given 1950s-style British Transport Commission signs, and a 'running-in' board to an even older Great Western Railway design. Even the 'Platform' name - used by the GWR at some of its smaller stations - has been revived. All of this and the immaculate presentation of the station is facilitated by an active 'Friends of Penmere' group. The halt was opened in 1925 - some 62 years after the railway itself - to serve the growing western suburbs of Falmouth.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.150593
Longitude
-5.083419