Support Focal

Help Sustain the Vision

• Membership of Focal costs just £5.00

• No railway experience necessary!  All you need is an enthusiasm for our aims.

If you would like to join Focal please contact our Membership Secretary, Jim Cleare, or simply come along to one of our monthly meetings.

Focal Monthly Meetings

• The next meeting will be held on Monday 8th March 2010 at the Kings Arms, Luxulyan PL30 5EF, starting at 10.00am.

A warm welcome awaits anyone interested in the Par to Newquay Branch Line.

• Focal AGM

Travel the Newquay Branch Line

In just two years Focal has achieved a 75% increase in the frequency of local services on the Newquay Branch Line, from four to seven services a day, beginning 15th December 2008. 

The new timetable includes early morning and late evening services, allowing the possibility of commuting for the first time in many years. 

The new service also provides for better connections with the main line. 

Send us a Message of Support

• If you have enjoyed our website and support our aims, please send a message of support and any additional comments to Geoff Mason-Brown.  We would like to publish messages, so please include a line to confirm whether you permit use of your words on these pages.

Purchase Unique Footage of the Chacewater Line

• You can also support Focal's work by purchasing a copy of our unique DVD entitled 'The Final Cut: the end of the Chacewater Line'.  The DVD presents a series of short films, collected & narrated by local railway historian, Focal member and one-time Station Master Stan May.  The films date from 1936 to 1963.

The 37-minute DVD has been compiled and edited by Geoff Mason-Brown and costs just £10.00.

Three sections of the film are available to view at YouTube:

Part 1 (8.22 mins), Part 2 (9.40 mins), Part 3 (9.59 mins)

To purchase your own copy of the DVD please contact Geoff.

• Read about the Chacewater Line in a series of articles by one-time Station Master Stan May, published by the Newquay Voice (October & November 2004)

Part 1, When sails were swapped for rails

Part 2, A railway system forged from iron ore

Part 3, Tourism helps to keep wheels turning

Part 4, The end of the golden age of rail travel