Gunwalloe - Church Cove
View across Church Cove in Gunwalloe at the base of the Lizard Peninsula.
The church is St Winwalloe with it's distinctively seperate bell tower and surrounding Tamarisk hedge....
newlyn house
Wonderfully painted frontage....
rogers tower
A folly built 18th C, for Mr Rogers, a local landowner....
For years Cornwall has campaigned for better rail services to London, with Mebyon Kernow - The Party for Cornwall at the forefront of many proposals. Now Network Rail has outlined considerations for a new railway for Cornwall. This is a brilliant opportunity for a reliable, fast and affordable service.
Well, nice idea perhaps, but I suspect what local people need more than a high speed link to London is a better local service that has more commuter trains that stop at EVERY station, improvements to the smaller stations, re-laying of the branch lines stupidly closed in the 60s, and better links between train and local bus services.
I often try to make necessary trips using public transport, but time and time again I am frustrated by lack of adequate service/flexibility.
I wonder if a high speed rail link is as important as some people think, or is it just a headline grabbing bit of posing and 'keeping up with Europe'??
I suspect more local residents would like improved local services, rather than shaving some time off the 'once in a blue moon' trip to London.....
This is great news from Cornwall, and a typical response from FlB - stick your spam-making blog and meaningless 'web discussion democracy drivel' that only powerless euro-nerds read.
Coady, Cornwall needs proper transport links, Newquay Airport is dodgy - it gets fogged out and caters for budget flight posh yobs - the business sector don't trust it.
Business people I speak to rely on the train. So, when the owner of a Cornish company needs to broker a deal up in London, or abroad and gets delayed on a clunky stopping train, misses their meeting, and Cornish lads and lasses don't get nice jobs in Cornwall - then you'll be happy to tell them that at least they can get a nice stopping service to Camborne job centre to sign on?
Of course, a TGV style service for Cornwall, would mean investment in the railways as a whole. Nice stopping services for the local workforce, new stations and railway lines would be far more likely.
Good news if it EVER happens, and I have BIG doubts (take a look at the other proposed routes, I’d nearly bet my bolloxs that we’ll come bottom of the list) also imagine the planning headaches!
But I really hope it happens, the wife and I went to Brussels on EuroStar a couple of weeks ago (3rd time I’ve been on EuroStar) and it really is a top service (St Pancreas is even better then Waterloo and that was a very good terminal, we really show Paris and Brussels how to do a station!) Trouble is although everything went to plan no hold ups at all on EuroStar or FGW to and from London, you can’t really risk EuroStar in one go. We were in London anyway at Wembly for a foo fighters gig.
I always find it amazing that when you get to Plymouth its still another 2 hours to Penzance when its 3h to London!
OOOOOO get you! Meaow! I wonder who LE is a sock puppet for? Or who he/she has been rubbing shoulders with?
Anyway it is good news and I'm sure I'll take full advantage of the new train but I still can't help thinking that improving public transport in the Duchy would have been better.
But just so that there are no mistakes -I THINK IT IS GOOD NEWS ANYWAY-
I think it'll be a double edge sword... Whilst it would undoubtedly help Cornish business and economy. It'll see more people relocate here as it'll be easier to commute out of the Duchy. More immigration more dilution of Cornish culture.
On the whole I think it'll be advantageous, but agree that Cornwall will be the absolute last place to be linked.
I would prefer to see a the funding going to better local transport routes, not just in Cornwall... Perhaps invest in tram systems and subways in places other than London.
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I wonder who LE is a sock puppet for? Or who he/she has been rubbing shoulders with?
