Investment
A Rural Transport Partnership grant from the Countryside Agency has provided £1 million investment for the lines during 2001-2007. This has enabled extra trains to be run, station improvements to be undertaken, and marketing campaigns to be established. Further funding has been secured by grants from the Rail Passenger Partnership Fund of the Strategic Rail Authority, and £235,000 from the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund funded marketing in 1997-1999.
The additional services thus funded have included:
- Sunday services on the Tamar Valley Line and the Maritime Line throughout the year, whereas previously they had run just in the peak summer
- Summer Sunday services on the Atlantic Coast and Looe Valley lines
- Extra trains on the Atlantic Coast and Tarka lines.
- Additional weekday trains on the Atlantic Coast Line in 2004 - Newquay’s best train service for many years.
- Station improvements on the Atlantic Coast, Looe Valley, Tamar Valley, and Tarka lines, and also a summertime ticket office at Looe station.
Read more about this topic: Devon And Cornwall Rail Partnership
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