Penzance

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Penzance (1852-)

Station code: PNZ National Rail
Where: West and South West England, England
Opened on the West Cornwall Railway.

Description

This four platform station is a terminus. A trainshed covers platforms 1 to 3.

Tags

Terminus station



Chronology Dates

  /  /1852West Cornwall Railway
Truro Road to Penzance opened, including a portion of the Hayle Railway from Redruth Junction to west of Gwinear Road. Stations opened at Truro Road, Chacewater, Scorrier Gate, Redruth, Angarrack [2nd], Hayle, St Ives Road, Marazion Road, Penzance.
06/07/1978Bristol and Exeter Railway
12 passengers killed in a fire on a Penzance to London Paddington sleeper train.

News items

01/01/2023The defunct Edinburgh train that let holidaymakers travel with their car [edinburghlive]
07/04/2022£6.5m railway investment set to begin in Penzance [Network Rail]
22/03/2022Aberdeen to Penzance: the spectacular sights of Britains longest train journey [Guardian]
26/08/2021Great British rail journeys to experience - from Penzance to the Far North Line [Metro]
15/12/2020Hitachi and Eversholt Rail to develop GWR intercity battery hybrid train offering fuel savings of more than 20% [Hitachi Rail]
20/08/2017Train derails as it departs London Paddington station [BBC News]
15/02/2017Hitachi Rail Italy begins production of bi-mode trains for GWR [IRJ]
19/04/2016'Signaller's error' caused Plymouth accident [Rail News]
05/08/2013Passengers stuck for six hours on broken-down Cornwall to London train [Evening Standard]
23/12/2012UK floods: Exeter railway tracks protected by dam [BBC News]