Talk:St Dennis Junction

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Article name[edit]

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– Redrose64 (talk) 20:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am rather confused by this article. It does not seem to describe St Dennis railway station, rather it is a general "history of railway lines through the Cornish village of St. Dennis". Indeed, I can find no record of a railway station here, people needing to travel to St Columb Road to catch trains.

Is this article really about St Dennis Junction, or is it perhaps the start of the missing Cornwall Mineral Railways article? Geof Sheppard 08:24, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wondering the same.Graldensblud 18:42, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the page. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Passenger service[edit]

Clarfication needed between two parts of the article:

"to reopen the link between St. Dennis Junction and St. Dennis in order to once again give a through passenger route between St Austell and St. Dennis" (St Denis Junction is on the Newquay line so the meaning is clearly complete through passenger service.

and

"although the line has never carried scheduled passenger trains"

Was this ever more than a mineral line? Graldensblud 18:42, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There has never been a scheduled passenger service between Burngullow and St Dennis over this route. If anyone wanted to make the journey, they would have had to travel to Par and change trains there. Geof Sheppard 13:46, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Railway service[edit]

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– Redrose64 (talk) 20:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is no railway station at St Dennis: I know because I used to live in the big yellow house down the road!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.7.174.42 (talk) 01:06, 21 April 2010

Indeed, that's mainly why there's a great big box at the start of the article. What we would like is for somebody who has positive evidence that there was a station there - whether now or at any time in the past - to produce said evidence.

It's known that there was a junction there, where the line from Burngullow joined the line from Par to Newquay; from St Dennis Junction there was also a mineral branch to Meledor Mill. (Conolly, W. Philip (1976). British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer (5th ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 1 section D2. ISBN 0 7110 0320 3. EX/0176. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)) This map does not show any stations between Roche and St Columb Road. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:58, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I live at Domellick in St. Dennis and the station in question is actually about a 5 min walk from my house. It is along side the power station on the goss moor trail. If you follow the old rail tracks from the bridge at Domellick you will arrive at the old platform. It is very overgrown but not to bad structurally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.118.167 (talk) 17:53, 21 October 2010

Unfortunately, eyewitness accounts are inadmissible, see WP:V and WP:NOR. What we need are reliable published sources which not only describe the location of the station, but also state the name of it as having been "St Dennis". --Redrose64 (talk) 18:14, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Platforms are not necessarily indications of railway stations. Many goods depots and private frieght terminals (such as china clay driers) also had platforms alongside railway tracks. Can you give the coordiantes or a map reference of where this platform is sitauted? Geof Sheppard (talk) 12:45, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Next time I walk down there I will pull my location up on my GPS and get the coordinates for you. I would imagine that Imerys would have some kind of documentary evidence of St. Dennis Station if it was used by them for transporting minerals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.118.167 (talk) 16:48, 31 October 2010

There is also information on this page http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lawrence.roy/cornwall/railway.htm about J T Treffry opening the Newquay Railway that terminated in St. Dennis and was opened in 1849. Further information can be found on http://wiki.newquaymap.co.uk/index.php?title=Railway_Station and photographs can be seen here http://disused-rlys.fotopic.net/c1566452.html stating that this is St. Dennis Junction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.118.167 (talk) 16:58, 31 October 2010

We don't doubt that the junction existed: the point is, was there a passenger station there? --Redrose64 (talk) 17:38, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the page. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]