| Lelant Saltings | |
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| Looking north | |
| Location | |
| Place | Lelant |
| Local authority | Cornwall |
| Coordinates | 50°10′42″N 5°26′32″W / 50.17830°N 5.44226°WCoordinates: 50°10′42″N 5°26′32″W / 50.17830°N 5.44226°W |
| Operations | |
| Station code | LTS |
| Managed by | First Great Western |
| Platforms in use | 1 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail |
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| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2002/03 * | 17,001 |
| 2004/05 * | 18,281 |
| 2005/06 * | 23,774 |
| 2006/07 * | 653 |
| 2007/08 * | 251 |
| History | |
| Original company | British rail |
| Opened | 1978 |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | |
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lelant Saltings from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |
Lelant Saltings railway station was opened on 27 May 1978 to provide a park and ride facility for visitors to St Ives. It is situated on the A3074 road close to the junction with the A30 near the foot of the hill up to Lelant village.
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History
The station was initially provided with a car park for 300 vehicles, all the occupants of each could travel to St Ives for just £0.60. Cornwall County Council provided £35,000 to build the car park and Penwith District Council paid £15,000 to build the platform. During the first summer nearly 136,000 people were carried from the station, with 3,000 cars using the car park in peak weeks. Nearly 40% of users surveyed said that they would not have visited St Ives if the park and ride was not available.[1]
All stations on the St Ives Bay Line have suffered from a dramatic decrease in passenger numbers over the last few years. This is most noticeable at Lelant Saltings where there were more than 23,000 passenegrs reported in the year ending in March 2006, but only 653 attributed to the station the following year .[2] (these figures are distorted by the ticketing system used on the branch,passenger numbers are actually significantly up year on year,[citation needed] station footfall is worked out by tickets sold to/from a destination, all tickets sold on the St Ives branch for local journeys are "rover" tickets and therefore have no destination stated on them)
| 2002-03 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
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| Entries | 8,092 | 8,632 | 11,693 | 317 | 116 |
| Exits | 8,909 | 9,649 | 12,081 | 336 | 135 |
| Total | 17,001 | 18,281 | 23,774 | 653 | 251 |
The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.
Description
The station is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of St Erth and faces the Hayle Estuary. There is just a single platform [3] built from pre-cast concrete components, which is on the left of trains arriving from St Erth.
St Ives Town F.C. play their football matches on a pitch at The Saltings next to the station.
Services
All trains are operated by First Great Western between St Ives and St Erth, although a few are extended beyond St Erth to Penzance.[4]
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| First Great Western |
References
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- ^ "Success for St Ives rail link". Modern Railways (Ian Allan Ltd) 35 (362): 490. November 1978. ISSN 0026-8356.
- ^ "Station Usage". Rail Statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- ^ Jacobs, Gerald (2005). Railway Track Diagrams Book 3: Western. Bradford-on-Avon: Trackmaps. ISBN 0-954986-61-X.
- ^ "National Rail Timetable 144 (Winter 2008)" (PDF). Network Rail. http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/eNRT/Dec08/timetables/Table135.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
| This station offers access to the South West Coast Path | |
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| Distance to path | 150 yards (140 m) |
| Next station anticlockwise | Lelant 0.75 miles (1 km) |
| Next station clockwise | Hayle 2 miles (3 km) |
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