Coombe Junction Halt railway station
Coombe Junction Halt 
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Looking towards Moorswater
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| Location | |
| Place | Coombe |
| Local authority | Cornwall |
| Coordinates | 50°26′42″N 4°28′52″W / 50.4449°N 4.48109°WCoordinates: 50°26′42″N 4°28′52″W / 50.4449°N 4.48109°W |
| Grid reference | SX239635 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | COE |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 60 |
| 2012/13 |
 48 |
| 2013/14 |
42 |
| 2014/15 |
26 |
| 2015/16 |
48 |
| History | |
| 1896 | Opened |
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| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Coombe Junction Halt from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Coombe Junction Halt railway station serves the villages of Coombe and Lamellion near Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Looe Valley Line and operated by Great Western Railway. All trains on this line have to reverse at Coombe Junction, but only a very few continue the short distance into the platform to allow passengers to alight or join the train.
It is one of the only two stations in the current National Rail Timetable (December 2009, table 140) officially to have the suffix "halt" (the other being St Keyne Wishing Well Halt on the same line). The term "halt" was finally removed from British Rail timetables and station signs and other official documents by 1974: the return of the term came only for these two stations in 2008. Coombe Junction was not termed "halt" until 2008.
With 26 passenger entries and exits between April 2014 and March 2015, it is the second-least used station in Great Britain, behind Shippea Hill.
The Liskeard and Looe Railway was opened on 27 December 1860 to carry goods traffic; passenger trains running from 11 September 1879. The railway in those days connected with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway at Moorswater and there was no station at Coombe but a platform was provided here from 1896 and trains would call to set down passengers going to Liskeard railway station if they notified the guard, as the steep road from Coombe to the station was considerably shorter than the route from Moorswater through Liskeard.
The extension line from Coombe Junction up to Liskeard railway station opened for goods traffic on 25 February 1901. Passenger trains started to use this line on 15 May 1901 when Moorswater was closed to passengers. All trains called at what is now Coombe Junction station while the locomotive ran around to the south end of the train to continue the journey. The original track layout included a loop south of the station to allow two trains to pass, but from 1928 this was combined with the platform road and after this trains could only pass after the first had run round and shunted onto the through line, when the second could be allowed into the platform.
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