The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Cornwall's St Erth to St Ives Railway Branch Line
Journey from the Centre of St Erth to St Ives
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Overview
Westward TV reporter John Doyle trains it from St Erth at Rose-an-Grouse to St Ives. Great Western Railway’s most westerly branch line is four miles of single track with a view. Glimpse the Lelant Saltings, Porth Kidney Sands and steep cliffs of Hawkes Point, the headland at Carrick Gladden, the Carbis Viaduct, Porthminster Point and Beach as the train winds through Lelant, Hayle and Carbis Bay before a 97m drop into St Ives and all for twenty-nine pence return fare.
The St Ives Bay line is opened by the West Cornwall Railway on 11 March 1852 and extended to St Ives as industry grew. From a broad gauge track in 1877 the line is converted to standard gauge in 1892, the steep incline into St Ives remains a challenge to train drivers. Mining and fishing attract artists and tourists as Cornwall develops. Today the line operates as a community railway and is one of the busiest ferrying visitors to and from St Ives, now even more famous for its art and artists, particularly Modernism, an art movement bringing Surrealism and Abstraction together. Tate St Ives opened its doors in 1993 and runs the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden which opened in 1980.
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