I started filming and editing in May 2008. I have produced educational, promotional and personal stories both long and short videos from around this part of England. I live by the sea here in Cornwall and my abition is to help people with my productions where possible.
On the main line, the sign 🪧 says Par for Newquay because it’s the final terminus county in the southwest of England 🏴. It’s around 50 minute journey runs from Par to Newquay is the Atlantic Coast line everyday including public holidays except Christmas 🎄🤶 🧑🎄 🎅 Day and Boxing 🥊 Day. I have been on the Atlantic Coast line a few times ✖️ in the past. It’s a good 👍 train 🚊 journey that happened to me. Newquay is in north Cornwall in the southwest of England 🏴. Today’s year in 2023 there are the 2 car 🚙 class 150/2 runs from Par to Newquay all year round and in the spring and summer season are added to long distance class 800/802 trains 🚆 runs from London Paddington to Newquay via Reading, Newbury, Taunton, Exeter St Davids, Newton Abbot, Totnes, Plymouth, Liskeard, Bodmin Parkway and Par. Class 150 trains 🚊 all have a toilet 🚽 🚻 and a standard class accommodation only. There used to be 1 single car class 153s were on the Atlantic Coast Line. Class 43s also had that happened in the past. Class 43s are with GWR - Great Western Railway 🚃 are likely to be reduced to around perhaps 🤔 the number to 4 by September 2023 and finally withdrawn on perhaps 🤔 Tuesday 31st December 2024 (New Year’s Eve) at the latest. There were also class 150/1 was probably used on the Par to Newquay branch is the Atlantic Coast Line. Class 150/1 have been withdrawn from GWR - Great Western Railway 🚃 is probably around Monday 31st December 2018 (New Year’s Eve) and finally went to NT - Northern. Par railway 🚃 station 🚉 in Cornwall, southwest of England 🏴 could have it’s train 🚆 ticket 🎫 🎟️ office closed because railway 🚃 passengers do it online everyday. 👍 👍 👍
The Par to Newquay railway 🚃 line is called the Atlantic Coast Line is a daily service runs everyday including public holidays except Christmas 🎄🤶 🧑🎄 🎅 Day and Boxing 🥊 Day. It’s the middle Cornish branch line in Cornwall in the southwest of England 🏴. On summer Saturdays, are replaced by long distance intercity express trains 🚊 runs from London Paddington to Newquay via Reading, Newbury, Taunton, Exeter St Davids, Newton Abbot, Totnes, Plymouth and Liskeard. Only one ☝️ train 🚊 company serves Newquay where it terminates is GWR - Great Western Railway 🚃. XC - CrossCountry used to run 🏃♂️ to Newquay in the summer 🌞 only a previous years ago, however it’s been stooped. Newquay is a holiday place. 👍 👍
Can you remember the end of Platform 1? The WH Smith newspaper sales pitch or can you remember next to it the Sweets and Tobacco Kiosk? George wasn't it? The trade they did on a Saturday morning was huge, trains from the Midlands and up North. Coaches stretched back up Platform One almost back to the signal box it seemed sometimes. Remember the Girls Grammar School? The Taxi rank composed with some Humber Super Snipes popular for their rear facing pop up seats to squeeze extra bums on! Then people began to afford their own transport and preferred to sit in traffic jams at Bodmin , Launceston and Okehampton, Exeter etc etc up the A38, A303.The Station Staff made money from tips in the 40's and 50's, Did they share tips?Jack the Shunter squeezing in pints at the Great Western Hotel and timing the next train due in on platform 1 or 2, all staff amazed that he seemed unaffected doing his dangerous occupation underneath the carriages whilst pissed! Happy times ended by an Accountant "Dr Richard Beeching" (how the hell did he get the nomenclature Doctor?) and a Tory Government.
The Trenance Viaduct was strengthened with arches I think in 1936.The first flimsy steel bridge by Trefry to carry his Clay from St Dennis and from East Wheal Rose Mine at St Newlyn East was to carry 2/3 trucks pulled by two horses. This was replaced by the first stone built bridge to carry trains, then later the arched bridge.
Loved this. A man that knew the facts. Stan May mentions the Gasworks which was such an ugly site and was closed in the early 50's. The main entrance to the Gasworks was close to the Western National Garage and the Office was still manned. Local kids like myself, Kenny Wilton, Keith Chubb (Who a few years later died in a diving accident out in the Far East) Colin Lorimer couldn't resist using the Old Works as our playground. It was dangerous and spooky, the staircases, ladders and ovens had numerous hiding places to avoid the workmen when they heard us playing up on the top floors with our air pistols shooting pigeons etc. We use to gain entry to the works by walking along the main platform and when it was quiet, the Staff in drinking tea, we'd jump down onto the Railway track and run down underneath the platform into the filthy ground floor and then up the first staircase and out of sight of Gaswork Office Staff. The view in the top room of the newer building gave a panorama of most of Newquay. Occasionally , I would drag a reluctant John Hawkey up with me but his Father Joe Hawkey the Station Shunter Foreman didn't approve. Most kids were terrified of entering the place. We went up in two's. The only kid that went alone was Keith Chubb but Keith was different sort of guy, had no fear. That probably cost him his life eventually. Many of the video's being made now are absolute trash and made by people that never travelled as far as Chacewater and on to Truro so take in this by Stan May. This is the factual, the reality!.
40 years back me and a girl are on a little Honda trail bike waiting to cross, we decide to ride over with me putting my legs over the bars and she is kneeling on the seat, a big American SUV full of American tourists see us and decide if we can cross on that little bike they will easily get over. wrong, they swamped out and ended up in the shelter with the car partly covered by water, we seen them later that day and they all looked very miserable and wet. at least it was a nice sunny day for them to dry the car out, I bet it's the highlight of many a story they tell their mates about their trip to Britain in the 1980s. . .
Such a shame this great little museum is being shafted by the council who are refusing to relocate them because they want the land. Please sign their online petition to stop this from happening.
@@frzzz1932 Yes, used Trewerry. and Trerice (Manor) and am certain of the Gwills platform. I worked for Peter Sidebotham at Legonna in 1962/3 and we stood in Peter's field alongside the railway and watched the last train full of passengers and cursed Beeching. (Twas the Tories policy though) destroy the powerful Rail Unions besides cuts.
@@frzzz1932 There wasn't a siding at Trevemper! There was a Coal Yard! That siding was a single short track to the yard. Can remember that Coal Yard later in it becoming a Fruit Depot. I brought loads of Oranges back from Cardiff Docks to the chap, Terry Julian who later in the 70's switched his Fruit business to the top of Crantock Street, the old "Box Factory" once used by Madame Hawke's clothing Company at the turn of the 1900's.Will reiterate to everyone discussing the "Newquay/Chacewater Line", the original track was Trefry's track from East Wheal Rose mine to the Harbour. Then a further track down the north side of Scotland Road to Treamble Farm for a Fuller's Earth mine. Only after that extention was Perranporth, Mithian, Mount Hawke, Chacewater contemplated!.
Shame about Trevemper. The coal yard building and remnants of the track were demolished a couple of years ago. Suspect you know that the route via Trevemper was actually the original railway route to East Wheal Rose/Treamble before the route was converted to passenger use as part of the Newquay-Chacewater branch.
Liked the completion of the journey! In the 1950's/60's, the stop buffers at the end of the line were at the end of the line! Behind them were the WH Smith Papers/magazine and the Confectionary Booth for sweets and tobacco. Anyone remember the guy's name? Was it George? I've forgotten. How about the Billboards surrounding the front of the Station? The old Gas-works red brick buildings? The Humber Super Snipe taxi's that carried 6or 7 passengers out of the Station to guest Houses? When it was God's Wonderful Railway!
my uncle Percy ran a taxi out of newquay station from before the war, and alway had a black humber snipe in coach black, in my youth we walked passed the gasworks to the western national bus station, and the railway station had a goods yard and a full size GWR station, complete with stationmaster & porters
@@johnshepherd4842 We remember a once lovely town. The Gasworks was out of use by the late 50's but some of us kids still used it as a playground. Keith Chubb, Colin Lorimer, Kenny Wilton and myself would go up into the two towers connected by three walkways either alone or in pairs. Believe me it was Spooky! We knew the weird creaking of the abandoned building was either pigeons or flaps of metal blown by the wind. As normal kids we tended to be noisy, there were still some Staff on the site as the Office remained open, people still paid their Gas bills at the Office so when we were overheard, they would send a Man up to clear us out of the building! That was a laugh! We knew it better than them, he would always shout up through the three floors and we would hide, generally in two brick ovens. The top floors were joined by a conveyor belt contraption housed in a galvanized tunnel. We would linger there to work out which side of stairways he was ascending either left tower or right tower and then use the opposite one to escape. We were never caught! They would catch anyone entering the site by the Office entrance but we entered via the Railway Station. We would walk down the main platform (now falling down and in a dangerous state), wait for Station go in for their endless cups of tea then. Jump down onto the Railtrack and walk bent over down underneath the platform into the Gasworks! We sometimes had Air Pistols and would shoot the Pigeons that lived there for years. Yeah yeah. . I know! It was the 1950's . . "Squeak" better known as Colin Lorimer and Keith Chubb were fanatics for bird shooting Sparrows, Starlings or anything that moved! I could write a book about the times back then.
I see that Land Rover at the end has a Birmingham registration ……….Brummies are furthest away from the sea than anyone else so probably hadn’t got a clue about tides etc 😆😆😆
A friend recently introduced me to your music and I love it. It really facilitates deep meditation. Wish I could attend a concert in person. Keep up your beautiful work.
Fascinating video. During my ancestry research, I read a lot about this well, it's healing powers and Saint Madron. This is where my lineage originated. Thank you for posting this video and keeping these legends alive.
Paraphrased from Jack Slinn's book 'Great Western Way' published by the Historical Model Railway Society: From 1942 less important engines had letters GWR widely spaced (but at this time only Kings and Castles were painted green). From 1945 un-named locomotives had 9" letters GWR with centres 3'6" apart but no Coat of Arms or similar device.
