Services
Par is served by most of the First Great Western trains on the Cornish Main Line between Penzance and Plymouth with one train per hour in each direction. Some trains run through to or from London Paddington station, including the Night Riviera overnight sleeping car service. Typical journey times by a through daytime train are around 50 minutes to Plymouth, 70 minutes to Penzance, and about 4 hours to Paddington.
There are a limited number of CrossCountry trains providing a service to North England and Scotland in the morning and returning in the evening.
The branch line to Newquay sees a mixture of self-contained services and ones that run through to Plymouth. On summer weekends most of the usual local services are withdrawn and replaced by a mixture of First Great Western trains from London Paddington, and CrossCountry trains from the North of England, although most of the latter do not call at Par, running non-stop from Bodmin Parkway instead. There is no Sunday service on the branch in the winter.
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxulyan | First Great Western Newquay to London Paddington | Lostwithiel | ||
| St Austell | First Great Western Penzance to London Paddington | |||
| CrossCountry Penzance to the North and Scotland | Bodmin Parkway |
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