Coombe Junction - Least Used Station in Cornwall 

You see what you've done now, don't you? Each time you visit a least used station, someone will organise a group to go there so that next year it's not the least used station. So you'll have to come back next year to visit what is then the least used station. You've just made this project infinite!

Just been to Coombe Junction Halt today (due to the video) and happy to report that the phone has now been fixed!

Help! Someone’s dying! **please wait**

I saw this programme once..there was a journalist reporting from an obscure station in the middle of the nowhere, with the train in the background. The reporter was saying "..and this is the only train that runs from here, once a week.." As he's talking to the camera, the train starts to pull out. The reporter looks over his shoulder and says "Oh, **** !"...Then there's a blurred jerky shot, as the whole crew run after the train ! :D

For some reason I'm always hyperaware that you have to go into/over to someplace a first time to put down the camera so you can film yourself going over the second time.

Slightly worrying,...how long would they have had to wait if they'd pressed the emergency button in the event of it being genuine?

Rumour has it that the information point is still trying to connect the call.......

To be honest the over the top enthusiasm is infectious.

It's amazing that such an unused station is still serviced by a train every day, while Houston in the US shockingly only has 3 trains going to it per week

Lived in Looe my whole life and I don't think I know anyone that has gotten off at Coombe

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These videos are really helping me get through a bad time. You two look very happy together,remember the good days if you ever hit some bad ones

love the punchline at the end!! Actually the historic walking tour group sounds like a good day out and something to keep in mind for visiting

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The freight train that goes past Coombe Jcn Halt also makes a return journey on Thursday. It passes Devonport station at about 4pm, just before my train

Geoff, every time someone asks for a certain video in the comments section, I'm now looking forward to your 'Please wait' response.

Very well done video, including the way Coombe Junction works, a brief glimpse of Moorswater Viaduct and some locals. Not much has changed about it since I was there as a boy in the 1970s and it's comforting to see that. If I missed the school bus home (me? Detention? Of course not...) I would walk all the way from school to Liskeard Station and wait (and wait) for the Looe train and get off at St. Keyne (probably only marginally busier than Coombe) and walk home (Trewidland). If memory serves, the cross-country course we used to do took us all the way down the hill from town to Moorswater and almost under the viaduct. Sorry for the rambling, enjoyed your vignette.

I love how Geoff makes friends with literally everyone

This was a very nice recommended video! I learned quite a few things and it was nice to discover a cool abandoned station! Thank you very much Geoff

I've been waiting for ages for this video of Cornwall's least used station!

Great video. This area was a curiosity for me as I was planning my summer holiday in England and using Network Rail's map to plan out my train trips. The railway configuration looked funny on that map. And so I was quite excited to see this rail line from the tall viaduct on my train from Penzance to London!

Brilliant. I stopped ar Coombe nearly every day in may when I stayed in Looe and I kept catching the 0909!

Impressive horn! A proper train sound. Thanks for exploring this end of the world! x

I had already seen this video a couple of years ago but got reminisced when I read an article on the cement factory line in Cornwall daily yesterday. I will be joining UCL this September, so looking forward to travelling to Coombe Junction, one of the inspirational least used stations.

I think that ranks as one of the most fun Least Used Stations videos!

Love the least used stations

Every time that “Please wait…” shows up, I think of this: “Dinsdale…”

Keeping the "waiting" bit in there was hilarious! I watched through to the end just for that. Awesome!

I am sure that you have thought of this already, but just in case... Could you do the Most used station in... county at the same time as these least used ones?

Gotta go down there on a Wednesday lunch time 👍😃. Another brilliant video, thanks.

proud to say I've used that station several times, has some lovely lanes to walk around.

Your video makes me want to visit the station. Thank you!

Quote of the day : please wait

That was a funny video. I also rember walking under the viaduct when i was young, probably in 2002 or 2003 and that gate at 9:55 in the video. If I rember correctly i was lost with my dad looking for my sister & mom, who had also got lost. We walked around in circles for hours. I rember 2 large 5 or 7 inch diameter blue pipes running alongside the track which were carrying water. Its a very strong memory....but where did those pipes lead? I never found out!

I live 20 miles from Shippea Hill, this is why me, ex British Rail 1974 to 1992, uses my faithfull Ford Mondeo.

Superb. I really enjoyed this.

Wouldn't surprise me if Lelant Saltings now became the least used station in Cornwall. Park and Ride is now at St Erth and the Saltings now has one train a day in each direction.

Geoff I've been wanting you to do this for ages

Very entertaining. We go to Cornwall every year and it’s nice to see a different part of Cornwall

I love this line!! I live in penzance and it's great to go here in the summer

*COOMBE JUNCTION* The junction with 1 track that isn't even a junction

You guys are legends. Thank you

I live in the USA, and I’ll tell you, we have buses, but trains are for going long distances, like, Seattle to San Francisco. We don’t have disused stations, at least on the West Coast, cause they are all used, all the time. The difference is that the trains stop at every station once a week, at most, but they go the entire distance of Britain a couple times a week. But closer in to individual cities, they have their own mass transit, and have almost no least used stations. The least used have like 2 trips to them at maximum on the weekends, 8 or more on the week days. Lovely video, makes me want to move to the UK even more...

Another great video, really good fun! Going to watch the Redcar British Steel one now 👍

I remember years ago I took the looe train and always remember a stop near a cottage and the train stopped and the guard jumped off and delivered eggs and some newspapers to the cottage ....

And I rewatch this video nine months later. So glad to see he original please wait clip

I love, love, love your videos, fantastic!

This station could easily get a more regular service as the train has to slow down all the time when it changes direction. It can only take an extra minute to travel an extra fifty metres and turn around at the station

Wasn’t “strong and stable” the tagline from the Tory’s election campaign last May/June?

Great video Most enjoyable! I remember going there when the trains were steam hauled!

That was great fun!! I love your videos.

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Comment is coming... PLEASE WAIT Please WAIT Please Wait Please Wait Please Wait I like trains !

Love your videos!

0 teas? Anyone else disappointed in Geoff?

I love this. Fabulous couple.

I hope this series picks up before this years stats come out!

Is the information point still saying please wait?

Hi Geoff. Love the video (and all the stations). When you do Combe in Oxfordshire I would be happy to come too (as that is my local lest used station).

You should do another London's lost railways with the North Woolwich to Stratford part of the North London line Geoff

So from the video there is a factory right next to the station. But the trains aren't timed to make it suitable for anyone working there to use the train to get to work. A missed opportunity surely?

Yay my local county! Thanks Geoff :D

Two years of "please wait"

Please keep these videos coming. They really do add a bit of sparkle to any day. Hope the evening at the museum went well, wish I could of flown over and taken it in.Any chance that a video of the talk will ever pop up?

Loved this video!

Lovely video, as always! :)

Surprising how the gap between the track and platform is less than the gap of a Croydon tram platform

Very cool video!!

"HEELLPPPP!!! I'M BLEEDING TO DEATH !!!!" - "Please wait."

Omg I actually thought that that was it until I watched until 5:53 where you went out of the gate, I was about to say "Now what are they gonna do?" :L And this is really interesting to watch, I go to Cornwall ever year on holiday and I didn't realise that there were unused stations like this one!

I think the cement factory you referred to was a China Clay processor

Ugh those "Help" Points. I'm disabled, and we came back from Tenerife to Heathrow, we had help booked to meet us at the Gate, which was miles away from anywhere. Well, it didn't turn up. We got kicked off the plane and left there alone. Fortunately they did actually bring my mobility scooter up to the gate and our first point of call was one of those Help Points. Which nobody answered. So we somehow managed to get the scooter onto the train to the luggage carousels. NIGHTMARE. A woman in Border Control helped us the rest of the way, as she had finished her shift. Got out of the airport 3 hours late.

I've been watching the least used station series as well as all the stations. I'm thinking of visiting the UK next spring and doing all the least used and most used stations in each county. who wants to go?

I can remember using that station in the late seventies, my mates' gran lived at Moorswater and we used to walk from Coombe to her house for pasties.

I wonder if we'll eventually see a video of the least used station on The Isle of Wight.... ever.

The building behind the station that was making the noice was a textile mill! it's pretty empty considering its not to far from a mid-size twon!

Btw, a single-car 153 unit as seen here on the Looe Branch was what they used to use on the Stourbridge Town shuttle before the Party People Moved started. What I didn't realise until looking at one of the links you've supplied here Geoff, was that there was a train on this branch in London Midland livery, (presumably with their green moquette seats inside), very probably the one displaced from the Stourbridge service!!

What a cool driver. Wish all drivers were like that.

I actually used Coombe Junction station twice when on holiday in the late nineties. It was November (I think) and my ex wife and I were off to St. Ives for the day to see the Tate. We had to rise before dawn and walk from the cottage that we were renting to the station. In the distance an owl was hooting and nothing else moved until the train did. It was a little other worldly being so deserted especially for a Londoner. We did of course use it on the second occasion to return. It was no less basic than Talybont station on the Cambrian coast line which I used in the early eighties and a good deal cleaner.

Love a good old class 153

Very funny finish. Great video.

Wish I could have met you guys when you came down!

btw, the noise behind the wall along this tiny station comes from the Devon & Cornwall Wools factory installed just between the tracks and the road to Liskeard road allowing to walk back straight to Liskeard station in just a few minutes!

This was a charming little station.

We live within walking distance of the least used station in Melbourne Australia -- Tecom station on the Belgrave line (which turns into the Puffing Billy steam line). We do our best to get its numbers up especially around MIFF -- film festival time. MIFF is the second oldest film festival in the world and it started in Olinda which is up our way. Terry

How come British transportation workers are so damn friendly? Here in America if to try to talk to a person working for the transportation department, he'll arrest you for "Assault"

Geoff, just wanted to say love your videos (since I not on twitter). Also, not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, but if you look at the viaduct on Google Maps, you can see supports for the previous viaduct (parts of 7 of them still visible). Random guy in USA...

I came here on Saturday 14th but not on a train, I walked down from Liskeard. It's a very quaint small station

Very intresting and funny too thanks i needed a chuckle.

Interesting to see you at Liskeard - the hardest town in Cornwall - at least that is what one guy told us who was going to Liskeard for a drink and to spend his evening arm wrestling!

I wanted to comment on the Angel Road station. I had to use it three or four times, apparently it is in an area very popular with companies to have warehouses and their flagsips ,so every time I went it was because of job interviews. The last time I was there it was freezing and raining so heavily! No toilets, nowhere to buy cofee, nobody there -- just trains that flash by without stopping. A horrendous crappy station. I don't understand why trains do not even stop there... it's in a quite a popular area in London. Many people would use it if they could. And the information point worked exactly like the one at Coombe Junction: nobody was there.

Well done, always on track..🚊

I think I accounted for three of those forty-eight passengers at Combe Junction Halt in 2015/16. Doing my bit!

a least used station that have more passengers annually but looks like an abandoned station

I'd love for you guys to do the history of the Newquay to Par line. There's some viaduct action there too!

NO bin! but a beautiful and picturesque location. Birds plants and a bailing twine gate latch

I like seeing the grass growing between the tracks! If you really want to see that in a big way, go to the “train featuring channel”, which is based in the Philippines. The concept of gravel around the tracks does not seem to have caught on there! It’s grass between the tracks, and palm trees reaching out all around.

With Shippea Hill and Coombe Junction Halt going up in passenger numbers I wonder which station will be bottom in 2017/18. Maybe I should organise a flash mob to one of my local stations, Barry Links, to bump that one up as well. It could well be bottom otherwise!

You should try Lelant Halt on the St Ives branch line. I went backwards and forwards twice and discovered it is no longer used and so had to walk from Lelant Saltings to start my walk.

That's cool you should explore some of our train tracks in Ireland