Penryn railway station
Penryn 
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Looking towards Truro railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Penryn |
| Local authority | Cornwall |
| Coordinates | 50°10′15″N 5°06′42″W / 50.1708°N 5.11155°WCoordinates: 50°10′15″N 5°06′42″W / 50.1708°N 5.11155°W |
| Grid reference | SW779346 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PYN |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.211 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.230 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.249 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.267 million |
| 2015/16 |
 0.244 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Cornwall Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| opened | 1863 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Penryn from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Penryn station is on the Maritime Line from Truro to Falmouth Docks, and serves the town of Penryn, Cornwall, England as well as Penryn Campus (formerly known as Tremough Campus). The services are operated by Great Western Railway.
The station was opened by the Cornwall Railway in 1863. It originally had a passing loop but was rationalised to just a single platform when the line was being run by British Rail.
A new 400 metres (440 yd) passing loop was installed in 2008, being brought into use in 2009 before the new timetable commenced on 17 May as this called for two trains to be in operation on the branch for most of the day. To pay for this work £4.67million was provided from European Union funds, £2.5million from Cornwall Council, and £600,000 from Network Rail. The new works were formally opened by Kevin Lavery, the Chief Executive of Cornwall Council, on 18 May 2009.
There is a single platform that offers level access from the car park. Trains towards Truro run from left to right; trains towards Falmouth Docks run from right to left.
When constructing the loop a novel approach was adopted which avoided the building of a footbridge and works to the disused platform. The formerly disused northern end of the platform has been reinstated, and is now called Platform 2, and an extension has been built onto the southern end which is now called Platform 1, the middle section of the platform is now used to pass between the two. The extension and reistatement creates a platform of 238 metres (781 ft) in length; the southern end of the loop joins the main branch at the northern end of Platform 1. New modern shelters have been built on each platform, and the brick shelter from 1998 still exists.
The disused platform on the far side of the loop line was formerly used by trains towards Truro.
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