Saltash

CRS Code	STS
Collected date	26/05/05

After seeing the magnificent engineering achievement of the Royal Albert Bridge by means of which trains enter Saltash, the station itself is a sad sight. It doesn't look bad from a distance in this shot taken from the Tamar Bridge:

When you get closer, though, the building is fenced off and decaying. Not much of a welcome to Cornwall!

The rear of the building is equally sad. However, the small notice on the door indicates that the building is to be restored and operated as a Brunel Heritage Centre:

The station area looking east:

The shelter on the westbound platform:

The shelter on the eastbound platform has a sign offering tickets, but the station is actually unstaffed:

A small garden brigthens up the eastbound platform:

All photographs are © Alexandra Lanes You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose. Coastline maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001