St Erth railway station is a Grade II listed station situated at Rose-an-Grouse in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It serves the nearby village of St Erth, which is about away, and is the junction for the St Ives Bay Line to St Ives. The station is measured from via . History The station was opened by the West Cornwall Railway on 11 March 1852. At this time it was known as St Ives Road and was the railhead for that town, which lies about to the north. This was an important harbour with a busy fishing trade and tin and copper mines; the new railway brought it artists and then tourists. The station was a simple single platform situated on the north side of the line. On 1 June 1877 a branch line was opened from here to St Ives, which was when the station was renamed 'St Erth'. The station building was reconstructed in granite and a second track was laid on the north side of the platform for branch line trains, but the main line still had only the one track. This was partly rectified in about 1894 when a loop line with its own platform was opened, but the line was only doubled eastwards to on 10 September 1899, and westwards to on 16 June 1929. Beyond the St Ives branch platform was the station goods yard and sidings which served a china clay dry for a few years. It then served milk trains from the Primrose Dairy creamery, later operated by United Dairies, although these were taken out of use in 1982. A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1964, there were two coaches here for the last three years. Stationmasters W.W. Hall ca. 1880 ca. 1885 Frederick Marshall Cause 1890 - 1897 (afterwards station master at Acton) A.E. Hawker 1898 - 1923 J. Cocking 1923 - 1926 Robert John May 1926 - 1934 (formerly station master at Ivybridge) Richard Petrus Grenfell 1934 - 1940 (afterwards station master at St Ives) J. Shipton 1940 - ca. 1950 William John Martin 1955 - 1961 (formerly station master at Marazion) Facilities The station buildings are constructed of granite in an 'L' shape west and north of the St Ives bay platform. The booking office is staffed for part of the day and is located in the west-facing section which faces the station car