{"id":3172,"date":"2011-01-20T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T09:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2011-01-20T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:00:48","slug":"st-erth-for-st-ives-railway-station-a-country-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/st-erth-for-st-ives-railway-station-a-country-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"St Erth for St Ives railway station &#8211; a country junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/st-erth-railway-station-14.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"St Erth railway station, Cornwall  on the Great Western main line to Penzance  - photos and history\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s a station on the busy main line from Paddington to Penzance in Cornwall, St Erth retains the air of a Victorian country\u00a0junction.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The junction for the charming four mile long branch to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/stives\/st-ives-station.html\">St Ives<\/a>, the station retains most of its original features, including fine wooden canopies, a covered footbridge and a substantial booking office.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/st-erth-railway-station-06.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"St Erth railway station, Cornwall  on the Great Western main line to Penzance  - photos and history\" width=\"580\" height=\"375\" \/>i<\/p>\n<p>Although the nightly milk trains to Kensington Olympia went in the 1980s, the\u00a0station\u00a0still has a full set of semaphore signals controlling train movements, and there&#8217;s even a garden on one of the platforms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/st-erth-railway-station-08.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"St Erth railway station, Cornwall  on the Great Western main line to Penzance  - photos and history\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The St Ives branch train runs from the platform on the left (behind the railings) and you can just make out the signal box in the distance behind a fine pair of semaphore signals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/st-erth-railway-station-01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"St Erth railway station, Cornwall  on the Great Western main line to Penzance  - photos and history\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/st-erth-railway-station-cornwall.html\" target=\"_blank\">St Erth railway station feature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s a station on the busy main line from Paddington to Penzance in Cornwall, St Erth retains the air of a Victorian country\u00a0junction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,193,90],"tags":[1200,382,218,207],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","category-railways","tag-railways","tag-st-erth","tag-st-ives","tag-station"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/st-erth-railway-station-14.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}