page_title: St Austell railway station
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: St Austell railway station / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: A new footbridge was built at St Austell railway station in 2015, wider and with lifts to replace the one which had been in use for more than 130 years.
context_page_description: St Austell station is a Grade II listed station which serves the town of St Austell, Cornwall, England. It is 286 miles from London Paddington via Bristol Temple Meads. The station is operated by Great Western Railway, as is every other station in Cornwall.
  The station is situated on the hillside just above the town. The main buildings were rebuilt in 2001 and face the town's bus station.
  The station is served by both local and long-distance trains, including the Night Riviera sleeper service.
context_section_description: The main building is on the south side of the line, nearest the town centre and facing the bus station. It was built in 2001 to a design by Lacie Hickie Caley. and contains a booking office and shop. The south side is Platform 1 which is used by trains running from east to west so it is the arrival platform for services from London Paddington and Plymouth and departure platform for Truro and Penzance.
  Platform 2 is used by trains running from west to east. The wooden building on this platform dates from Great Western Railway days. The station car park is situated behind this platform. An accessible footbridge links the two platforms.
  At the east end of the platform is a road bridge carrying Carlyon Road over the line and beyond this is a small cutting which is spanned by a footbridge. The original bridge survived for almost 150 years; it was extended when the extra line was laid in 1931 to the new goods yard, but both sections have now been replaced by Network Rail's prototype modular fibre reinforced polymer footbridge.
caption: The accessible footbridge
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