Newquay Line - from today, a proper day return service available for all.

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[grahame]

Mentioned in several places elsewhere on the forum, but worthy of its own thread - as from this morning, extra services on the Newquay to Par line transform the service from a visitor's railway into a service that can be used for regular conventional commutes and days out, with the addition of two morning services.  The line itself (and services) are summarised in the sticky thread at http://www.passenger.chat/24259

https://twitter.com/JanePlymouth/status/1338382626042892289



The importance of this is massive - a whole day in Plymouth is now practical by train not just an afternoon, as is travel into Newquay for the day from the places along the line - none with large passenger numbers yet, but an opportunity offered.  Wishing all the best to GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) and the Community Rail team in the area in getting this line back into the fabric of routine community travel.

[LiskeardRich]

If I?m not mistaken the earliest arrival to Plymouth or Truro was previously late morning. Useless for commuting

[bobm]

Earliest arrival into Plymouth was after 12 - you can now get to Paddington by that time.

[infoman]

Brilliant news considering that the first train out was  approx 10:00am ish
Be interesting to see what the loadings on the early morning bus departures(06:00am ish) will be.
As you have to purchase your ticket to travel before you sit down.
Just wondering where the train crew and unit come from.
A suggestion in my simple world, why not have a non stop servive from Par? to Newquay to start the days workings.

[bobm]

The Newquay branch is usually worked by crews based at Par depot.

The first service on the branch is now the 06:00 from Par which reaches Newquay at 06:52 and then returns at 07:12.

It looks like the unit stables at Par overnight having working on the Looe Valley line the previous evening.

[grahame]

Until December 2020 timetable on the LEFT, from December 2020 on the RIGHT:

Brilliant news ...

[snip]

A suggestion in my simple world, why not have a non stop service from Par? to Newquay to start the days workings.

With assurance of reliability and longevity, the early inbound train may build up a commuter flow of people coming from the villages along the way to work in the leisure business in Newquay ... calling (as required) is what I would have suggested from the comfort of my distant armchair in the Far East (a.k.a. Wiltshire).    I was distinctly cynical about our early train at 05:33 which started last December - happy to admit I was wrong in worrying and it's done much better than I would have guessed.

[LiskeardRich]

Be interesting to see what the loadings on the early morning bus departures(06:00am ish) will be.

Having previously worked the 0630 ish Newquay to Truro bus, before the tender went to another operator, it used to carry reasonable numbers to work at the fraddon retail park which is still some distance to nearest station, and Truro. Truro is around 70 mins average on the bus, so I?d say the bus still has favourable timings to Truro from Newquay

[infoman]

Ref fraddon retail park,could passengers travel by train to St Columb Road and then catch the bus?
Just a thought.

A final thought that the first train out of Newquay
1) The station has a departure board display and
2) real time information,so we don't see the train being shown as  "on time" til 07:11 and then "delayed"