Penzance

CRS Code	PNZ
Collected date	22/05/05

In late May 2005, Ben Harris and I travelled down to Cornwall for a week's worth of visiting every station in Cornwall with a fair bit of walking holiday thrown in as well. The long journey from Cambridge got us here, to Penzance.

Penzance welcomes you... with a lump of granite and a mosaic of the coastline of Cornwall overlaid with the white-on-black Cornish flag. Beyond the granite is platform 4; the other platforms are through the entrance to the left.

The entrance:

Inside the trainshed it is quite gloomy:

Platforms 1-3 terminate inside the trainshed. Looking first along the line and then into the concourse:

From the road which climbs to the side of the railway, I got these views of the trainshed and looking east at platforms 1 and 2:

From the same vantage point just north of the station complex, the gentle curve of the station building can be made out. It's virtually unnoticeable from the inside:

Looking along platform 3 into the trainshed:

Looking east along platforms 1-4 with the signal box in the distance:

Looking west along platform 3/4 towards the trainshed. To the left of platform 4 are another two sidings, possibly used to get cars on and off Motorail services?

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