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the train going to Lamastre. The Chemin de fer du Vivarais (French pronunciation: [ʃəmɛ̃ də fɛʁ dy vivaʁɛ], CFV) - often called Le Mastrou or Train de l'Ardèche - is a tourist railway in the Ardèche region of the South of France. The metre gauge line is 33 kilometres (21 mi) long.
The station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1877 as the terminus of a 4.25 miles (6.8 km) long, 7 ft (2,134 mm) gauge branch line from St Erth which until then had been known as St Ives Road to indicate its position as the railhead for the town. [1] The platform was on a sharp curve with a goods shed behind it. The town end of ...
The St Ives Bay Line is a 4.25 miles (6.84 km) railway line from St Erth to St Ives in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was opened in 1877, the last new 7 ft ( 2,134 mm ) broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in the country.
The 7.5-mile (12.1 km) section from Burngullow to Probus (between the current stations at St Austell and Truro) used to be double track, but was singled in 1985 due to subsidence from closed mines. It became a major cause of delays in the region, requiring trains to wait for preceding trains to clear the singled section before proceeding.
St Ives harbour from the bus stop The harbour and the lifeboat. St Ives is twinned with Camaret-sur-Mer (Breton: Kameled) in Brittany, France and has friendship agreements with Laguna Beach, California and Mashiko, Tochigi, Japan. [105] On Sunday 7 September 2014, St Ives had a ceremony to make St Ives and Laguna Beach, California, US sister ...
The Cambridge and St Ives branch (as it is named on New Popular Editions Ordnance Survey maps) was a railway built by the Wisbech, St Ives & Cambridge Junction Railway in the late 1840s. The railway ran from Cambridge in the south, through Fenland countryside to the market town of St Ives ; more specifically, the line ran from Chesterton ...
By the 1960s it was obvious that the route between March and Cambridge via St Ives was losing money, and local traffic was insignificant. The March to St Ives line was closed on 6 March 1967. The St Ives to Cambridge section was closed to passenger traffic in 1970, but sand traffic from Fen Drayton continued to be carried until 1992.
There were typically three return passenger train trips daily between Ely and St Ives, stopping at all stations; there was an additional return trip on Mondays and Thursdays. The time between Ely and St Ives was about 45 minutes. Sutton and Haddenham were the busiest stations but there were few passengers overall. In 1927 the line recorded ...