Truro

CRS Code	TRU
Collected date	22/05/05

Our first day's travelling in Cornwall brought us to Truro, which is the junction for the Falmouth Docks branch.

The station building has two squat turrets at either end, and a modern booking office has been added to the eastern end:

Each of the roof turrets bears the GWR monogram in the ironwork:

The Great Western main line runs through platforms 2 and 3. Platform 2:

Platform 3:

Platform 3 has a couple of picnic tables under the canopy:

An unusual wooden shelter under the canopy on platform 3:

The space to the north of platform 3 is now a car park but was clearly once another platform, as can be seen from the edging stones:

Platform 1 is the platform for the branch to Falmouth, next to platform 2 at the west end of the station. The small hut on the platform contains the one-train staff instrument, which releases the train staff for the single-track branch:

The station has two footbridges, one at either end of the station. However, when we visited the bridge at the western end of the station was closed for repairs. Looking east from platform 3 at the other bridge:

The level crossing and signal box are at the eastern end of the station:

At the far western end of the station, a long bridge crosses the platforms and track:

Three generations of bench-end ironwork at Truro station, first two incarnations of the GWR and then British Rail Western Region:

The station clock and its supporting ironwork under platform 2's canopy:

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