Hayle Station

[Fredtheshred]

I arrived with my parents into St Ives around 1978?

I was begging them to leave me on the station (Hayle) whilst they went exploring. They were having none of it.

So I asked for ten mins on the station.

There was a teenage lad on the platform whom we started talking to. Turns out his dad was the ticket guy/signalman for Hayle station.

He just tells my parents he will look after me.

Seeing a 25 come off the wharves line and the "one a day" HST of the new generation was amazing.

I think Wharves closed not long after, along with the box, but I spent 3 half days there that week.

 

[Ashley Hill]

There are some excellent photos of Hayle in the 1970s on the Cornwall Railway Society website. It shows 25080 passing the station and its two members of staff plus a spotter on the platform with his Adidas bag.
The box closed in 1982. Interestingly it retained its Spagnoletti block instruments until 1979.