Oh, and the branch line to St Ives, via Lelant and Carbis Bay has to be one of the most beautiful routes on earth (althouth I admit I'm biased, because Anna and I often sit at Lelant Station to eat our lunch and watch the birds on the estuary). And I regret to say that too many years of that have addled our brains, and just this past Christmas and New Year, we've started building ourselves an OO Gauge model railway featuring this magic bit of Cornwall's railways. It's a bit sad that we're going to capture this in miniature, but with our petrol / gas now costing around £4-50 per gallon, (that must be around $7 in USA money and $6.80 in Australia) we've decided it is cheaper to stay at home and play trains, than it is to get in the car and drive westwards from where we are in North Cornwall. And the wonderful thing is that if you come to Cornwall by rail, you can still come in all the way from London and finish up at the end of the country at Penzance, where the train has to stop or it would roll off into the ocean (via St Erth)!!! John. This message and any attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the recipient please email the sender and delete this message and any attachments from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message and attachments, or disclose the contents to any other person. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this message and any attachments are virus free, We can take no responsibility if a virus is actually present. We advise you to carry out your own virus check. > To: cornish@rootsweb.com > From: tabletweaver@aol.com > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:14:44 -0500 > Subject: Re: [CORNISH] PRYOR OR PRIOR > > But it does have a main line railway station - in 1963 when Flanders > and Swann were lamenting the closure of rural branch lines in "The Slow > Train" they wrote > > No one departs, no one arrives > >From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives. > They've all passed out of our lives > On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train. > > But they were wrong - it's still fully functional as is the branch line > to St Ives. > > cheers > > Catherine > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Connie Saunders <dccows@comcast.net> > To: cornish <cornish@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:59 > Subject: Re: [CORNISH] PRYOR OR PRIOR > > > > Graham, > St Erth is about 10 miles North of Penzance. It's not a large town more > of a > small village. > Connie in warmer Utah it got to 25 F this morning, we are having a heat > wave!!! > > > Interesting! (or confusing!) Has anyone heard of St. Erth?" > > Best wishes > Graham > Melbourne > Oz > > > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to > CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com with > the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, > MIME > digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > body of > the message > > > > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message