the station is built on the sea wall near the harbour; the other side is cut into the hillside. There is only one bi-directional line into/out of the station as far as the (now defunct) station at , as the former northbound line has been used to access Penzance TMD at Long Rock since 1977. Facilities As the western terminus of the Night Riviera service from London Paddington, the station has a sleeper lounge and a shower room to the northern end of the concourse, as well as waiting rooms and two cafes in the concourse. There is also an information point on platform 3. Services Penzance is the terminus of the Cornish Main Line. The journey time to or from London Paddington station is between five and six hours and there are additional services as far as and . London services include the Night Riviera overnight sleeping car service and the Golden Hind which offers an early morning service to London Paddington and an evening return. Other fast trains are the mid-morning Cornish Riviera and the afternoon Royal Duchy. There are a limited number of CrossCountry trains providing a service to destinations in the West Midlands and north such as , Manchester Piccadilly, , Edinburgh, and . Penzance is the terminus of the longest train service in the United Kingdom, which runs from takes about 13 and a half hours. From 1996, South West Trains operated a weekly weekend service from as an extension of its service to . This ceased in December 2009. Freight and mail The WCR station had both a goods shed and a locomotive shed between the passenger station and the sea, and when a fire destroyed the goods shed in 1876 the building was enlarged considerably incorporating the original locomotive shed which had been replaced by one on the opposite side of the line near the end of the retaining wall, which in turn was replaced by the new Penzance Traction Maintenance Depot outside the station at Long Rock. In the first decade of the 20th century Penzance was typically handling 45,000 tons of goods each year. In November 1882 there were complaints about the paving, rail tracks and the difficulty for traffic to pass on the Albert Pier. The Borough Council requested the Railway Company to replace the paving with granite setts before relaying the rails. When the expansion of 1937 doubled the