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Hayle Station serves the town of Hayle
Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The station is operated by First Great Western
First Great Western

First Great Western is the operating name of First Greater Western Ltd, a United Kingdom List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom owned by FirstGroup, which operates services in the west and south west of England and South Wales....
 and is north east of Penzance
Penzance railway station

Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The station is the western terminus of the Cornish Main Line from London Paddington....
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The main entrance is to the platform served by trains to Penzance, which is approached by a road from Foundry Square. A footpath allows level access to the other platform too, and this continues along the route of a closed railway track down towards the wharves opposite a bridge which leads across the water to the Towans.






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Hayle Station serves the town of Hayle
Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The station is operated by First Great Western
First Great Western

First Great Western is the operating name of First Greater Western Ltd, a United Kingdom List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom owned by FirstGroup, which operates services in the west and south west of England and South Wales....
 and is north east of Penzance
Penzance railway station

Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The station is the western terminus of the Cornish Main Line from London Paddington....
.

The main entrance is to the platform served by trains to Penzance, which is approached by a road from Foundry Square. A footpath allows level access to the other platform too, and this continues along the route of a closed railway track down towards the wharves opposite a bridge which leads across the water to the Towans. There is also access between the platforms over a foot crossing, which is unusual for a main line station where fast services pass through without stopping.

A camping coach
Camping coach

Camping coaches were offered by many Rail transport companies in the United Kingdom as accommodation for holiday makers in rural or coastal areas....
 adjacent to the platform offers holiday accommodation.

Services

Hayle is served by many of the First Great Western
First Great Western

First Great Western is the operating name of First Greater Western Ltd, a United Kingdom List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom owned by FirstGroup, which operates services in the west and south west of England and South Wales....
 trains on the Cornish Main Line
Cornish Main Line

The Cornish Main Line is a railway line in the United Kingdom, which forms the backbone for rail services in Cornwall, as well as providing a direct line to London....
 between Penzance
Penzance railway station

Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The station is the western terminus of the Cornish Main Line from London Paddington....
 and Plymouth
Plymouth railway station

Plymouth railway station serves the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. It is situated on the northern edge of the city centre close to the North Cross roundabout....
. Some trains run through to or from London Paddington station, including the Night Riviera
Night Riviera

|}The Night Riviera is a sleeping car service operated by First Great Western. It is one of only two remaining sleeper services on the railway in Great Britain ....
 overnight sleeping car service.

There is one train each day operated by CrossCountry
CrossCountry

CrossCountry is a train operating company, the brand name of XC Trains Limited owned by Arriva, that has operated Great Britain?s Cross Country rail franchise since 11 November 2007....
 providing a service to Scotland
Scotland

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 in the morning and returning in the evening.

History

The station was opened by the West Cornwall Railway on 11 March 1852 when it replaced the original Hayle Railway
Hayle Railway

The Hayle Railway was an early Cornwall railway, built to standard gauge, and opened in 1837. The railway served the engineering works and copper quays at Hayle with the copper mines of Redruth and Camborne carrying ore to the port and coal to the mines, before the construction of the Saltash Bridge and the direct rail route out of Cornwall....
 terminus, located in what is now the Isis RNLI
Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the British Isles, as well as inshore. It was founded on 4 March 1824 as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, adopting the present name in 1854....
 Memorial Gardens.

During the 19th century, Hayle was a busy junction with goods lines running all round the town, many connecting from the embankment which is still visible behind the 'up' platform (accessed over the barrow crossing from the car park). However, the decline of shipping in the Hayle estuary
River Hayle

The River Hayle is a small river in west Cornwall, UK which issues into St Ives Bay at Hayle on Cornwall's Atlantic Ocean coast.The River Hayle is approx 12 miles long and it rises south-west of Crowan village....
 meant that these freight lines were no longer of any use and, shortly after the end of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the original Hayle station was demolished.

Signal box

Status: Demolished
This box was closed and demolished in 1982, when the Hayle Wharves branch line closed. The station buildings were also demolished at the same time.

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