The Night Riviera departs from Penzance at 21.45 on weekdays.
When we visited a week ago, it was already in place at platform 1 about an hour beforehand. The
immaculately turned out Class 57, No. 57604 Pendennis Castle was at the head of
the rake of sleeping cars and carriages. She is in former GWR livery with name
and number plates in the style of the pre-1948 Great Western Railway, as
carried over into BR days.
The station, with its train shed covering 3 of the 4
platforms and distinctive murals adorning the walls, is one of the more
attractive features of the town, especially at night, when the full sweep of Mount’s
Bay to St Michael’s Mount is not visible.
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