page_title: Disused railway stations on the Cornish Main Line
section_title: Chacewater
hierarchical_section_title: Disused railway stations on the Cornish Main Line / Truro to Penzance / Chacewater
caption_attribution_description: Chacewater railway station Original description: The Old Chacewater Station The Penzance bound platform still survives although the station is unused. It used to be the start of the Perranporth branch line until it was closed in 1963 when this station was also closed to passenger traffic.
context_page_description: There are seventeen disused railway stations on the Cornish Main Line between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England. The remains of nine of these can be seen from passing trains. While a number of these were closed following the so-called "Beeching Axe" in the 1960s, many of them had been closed much earlier, the traffic for which they had been built failing to materialise.
context_section_description: A station (50.2638°N 5.1698°W) (306 miles 1 chain or 492.48 kilometres) was opened at Chacewater by the West Cornwall Railway on 25 August 1852. On 6 July 1903 a branch line to Perranporth was opened from nearby Blackwater; it was extended to Newquay on 2 January 1905. Blackwater Junction was closed on 9 November 1924 which resulted in the physical junction being moved the half mile to Chacewater station, although most trains ran through to Truro.
  The Perranporth line closed on 4 February 1963. The station closed to passengers on 5 October 1964 but continued to be served by goods traffic for many years, latterly for Blue Circle Cement. The Penzance bound platforms can still be seen, complete with much altered station building.
  There are two viaducts east of Chacewater. The 128 yard (181 m) Blackwater Viaduct is immediately east of the station site and the 93 yard (132 m) Chacewater Viaduct is a little further east towards Truro. .
caption: Chacewater railway station in 2008
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