The Cornish Main Line
The Cornish Main Line runs for 78.9 miles between Plymouth and Penzance, serving 20 stations, with a top line speed of 75 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Length | 78.9 miles end to end |
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| Track | about 156 miles, counting every running line |
| Stations | 20 |
| Top line speed | 75 mph |
| Passengers a year | 7.9 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | MLN3, MLN2 |
Stations on this line
- Plymouth2.7 million a year
- Devonport49,756 a year
- Dockyard15,102 a year
- Keyham16,126 a year
- St Budeaux Ferry Road4,484 a year
- St Budeaux Victoria Road11,864 a year
- Saltash162,224 a year
- St Germans75,942 a year
- Menheniot6,232 a year
- Liskeard353,556 a year
- Lostwithiel94,184 a year
- Bodmin Parkway305,298 a year
- Par222,704 a year
- St Austell525,828 a year
- Truro1.3 million a year
- Redruth415,576 a year
- Camborne372,746 a year
- Hayle154,548 a year
- St Erth444,754 a year
- Penzance685,470 a year
The busiest station on the line is Plymouth, 2.7 million entries and exits a year and 209th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the Cornish Main Line on 80 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 19 paths on the Wednesday, 6 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 10 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 07:00 to 08:00 on the Thursday, with 5 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Lines it meets
Looe Valley Line, South Devon Main Line, Tamar Valley Line, The Atlantic Coast Line, The Maritime Line, The St Ives Bay Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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