We bought rail tickets for a quid for the short journey from
Carbis Bay to St Ives. We could have walked but it was raining and the station
was only a couple of minutes away from the house where we were staying. Carbis
Bay station was well used, though not all the trains on the branch line stopped
there.
Starting out from St Erth alongside the Levant saltings, the
Class 150 diesel unit clings to the side of Hayle estuary before climbing
steadily onto a ledge perched half way up the cliff, which is where it stays
all the way into St Ives. It provides one of the most spectacular, if one of
the shortest, branch lines in the country.
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