Services
The service operated by First Great Western since 10 December 2006 consists of nine trains each way daily. During the peak summer period from 20 May to 9 September 2007 three additional services were operated, including a late evening train. Sunday services only operate during this peak period, eight trains running on these days during 2007.
Coombe Junction Halt railway station is served by only two or three trains each way, the remaining intermediate stations are request stops – this means that passengers alighting must tell the conductor that they wish to do so, and those waiting to join must signal clearly to the driver as the train approaches.
The trains are formed of either two-car Class 150 or single-car Class 153 DMUs. 150233 is named Lady Margret of Looe Valley (the original Lady Margret was a steam locomotive belonging to the Liskeard and Looe Railway), and 153369 is named The Looe Valley Explorer. Both these trains carry large pictures on the outside showing local scenes, but interwork with other similar trains throughout the First Great Western network so do not work the line every day.
Read more about this topic: Looe Valley Line
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