Local Trains
February 12th, 2019
Calstock to Plymouth Railway Timetable
Valid until 1st June 2024
Gunnislake ±12min, Bere Alston ±9, St. Budeaux ±23, Devonport ±29 | ||||||||||
CALSTOCK - PLYMOUTH |
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Monday - Friday |
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Calstock | d | 05.54 | 07:37 | 09:31 | 11:31 | 13:31 | 15:31 | 17:45 | 19:45 | 22:34 |
Plymouth | a | 06:27 | 08:15 | 10:04 | 12:04 | 14:04 | 16:04 | 18:18 | 20:18 | 23:08 |
Saturdays |
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Calstock | d | 07:28 | 09:26 | 11:26 | 13:26 | 15:26 | 17:48 | 19:30 | 22:32 | |
Plymouth | a | 08:03 | 10:00 | 12:00 | 14:00 | 16:00 | 18:20 | 20:04 | 23:07 | |
Saturdays from 27th May 2023 |
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Calstock | d | 10:22 | 12:21 | 14;22 | 16:22 | 18:46 | ||||
Plymouth | a | 10:56 | 12:56 | 14:57 | 16:56 | 19:20 | ||||
Sundays ~From 2023 |
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Calstock | d | 10:22 | 12:21 | 14:22 | 16:22 | 18:46 | ||||
Plymouth | a | 10:58 | 12:55 | 14:57 | 16:58 | 19:20 | ||||
Sundays |
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Calstock | d | 10:22 | 12:22 | 14:22 | 16:22 | 18:46 | ||||
Plymouth | a | 10:56 | 12:56 | 14:56 | 16:56 | 19:20 | ||||
PLYMOUTH - CALSTOCK |
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Monday - Friday |
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Plymouth | d | 04:57 | 06:30 | 08:24 | 10:28 | 12:28 | 14:28 | 16:38 | 18:38 | 21:30 |
Calstock | a | 05:25 | 07:03 | 08:58 | 11:01 | 13:01 | 15:01 | 17:11 | 19:11 | 22:03 |
Saturday |
Plymouth | d | 06:27 | 08:22 | 10:24 | 12:24 | 14:24 | 16:44 | 18:26 | 21:30 |
Calstock | a | 07:00 | 08:55 | 10:57 | 12:57 | 14:57 | 17:17 | 18:59 | 22:03 | |
Saturdays until 16th May 2020 |
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Plymouth | d | 06:27 | 08:22 | 10:22 | 12:24 | 14:44 | 16:36 | 18:23 | 21:30 | |
Calstock | a | 07:00 | 08:55 | 10:55 | 12:57 | 14:57 | 17:09 | 18:59 | 22:03 | |
Sundays |
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Plymouth | d | 09:03 | 11:10 | 13:20 | 15:20 | 17:44 | ||||
Calstock | a | 09:36 | 11:43 | 13:53 | 15:53 | 18:17 | ||||
Sundays |
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Plymouth | a | 09:20 | 11:17 | 13:06 | 15:11 | 17:41 | ||||
Calstock | a | 09:53 | 11:50 | 13:39 | 15:44 | 18:14 | ||||
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Council Recycling
November 30th, 2017I have just emailed the Council about anomalies in recycling as follows;
Hi
I have spoken to two staff at Cornwall CC: the first couldn't put me through to waste management so I had to search on line for a number, to find them, who were only to happy to listen.
I have also spoken to Biffa who were unhelpful, unlike the previous contractors Cory Environment.
A background to the complaint/query is that I live off the beaten track and never received the coloured bags and box all those years ago when the scheme started. In fact I didn't really want them as I have so little waste and recycling that it seemed a waste of resources to have them, and anyway they would go missing etc.
The idea was that recycling was acceptable if the items were separated and clear. I.e. glass bottles or plastic could be left in separate plastic bags. There were/are boxes for bottles and bags for plastic etc.
This all worked ok until the last few months or more.
Now your original staff on 0300 1234100 said things will only be collected in the 'official' bags and didn't know of the flimsy, translucent orange bags that are thrown on the roadside.
So what is going on? Clearly orange bags are left out with no reference to them on your website
yet here are a couple of images that show the bags thrown on the ground. Often the wind catches them or they get run over and are a mess. Hey but who care about the environmental waste and hazard, clearly not the collectors. Oh! yes the pictures
So you can see the bags that are thrown out and in the above image you can see a nice tidy pack of cardboard which fits your specs on the previously linked page, yet was not collected. I'm also going to copy the email to a friend who also informed me of cardboard not being collected
"Cardboard - Brown, white and grey cardboard, brown paper, coloured paper, wrapping paper (not shiny) and greetings cards. Please remove all staples, sticky tape and plastic bags.
. . . . . .
if you have extra cardboard, please flat pack it, tie it up with string and put it out beside your recycling."
Then of course there's the bottles. From the act of throwing out plastic bags it seems Biffa don't mind what goes in them, bottle, plastic or card as long as they are separate bags for each, but why not pick up bottles in carrier bags or boxes. Boxes are especially mentioned on your website.Recycling box
Mixed glass recycling logo Mixed textiles recycling logoGlass bottles and jars – No broken glass, please. If you have broken glass, put it in a rigid plastic box like an ice cream container, mark it clearly as 'broken glass' and put it out with your household rubbish.
Why were the above not collected? Is it the wrong size or wrong colour box as suggested by one of the Council's staff?
And what about those in carrier bags?
So what's the problem here? Wrong size bag or wrong colour?
There was this notion that the collectors couldn't fathom what to do with the bags, like leave them behind with the orange ones they throw on the ground for reuse. Bung them in the truck with the others.
It all beggars belief that there is any serious attempt to recycle for environmental sake but just some fussy business where people get paid from land refill savings.
Please confirm the recycling collection is a joke and I can just throw all the rubbish in the bin as of old and not have to worry about cardboard and bottles lying around the streets, as if that's OK I may as well not bother with the hassle and embarrassment.
Roger Lovejoy
Copied to
southwest@biffa.co.uk
and bex
Local Services
May 25th, 2017 Doctors at Gunnislake: 01822 832641 Callington: 01579 382666
tamarvalleyhealth.org.uk/opening-times
- 79 and 79A Buses to Tavistock and Callington
- Trains Calstock to Plymouth Until May 18th 2019
- Plymouth City Bus
- Recycling and Waste Collection
- Local Government Planning: 0300 1234 151
- Local Government Benefits: 0300 1234 121
- Cornwall County Council website
- South West Water:- Supply issues Tel: 0344 345 2020
South West Water:- Finance and Meter Tel: 0344 406 8053 Now called Source for Business - Gunnislake Post Office Tel: 01822 832297
- Taxis
Taxis and 79 Bus
October 8th, 2014Taxis
AW 01752 848400
Though the link to 79 and 79A still works please check
https://assets.goaheadbus.com/media/cms_page_media/8202/COVID_19_Mondays_to_Saturdays.pdf
which contains the timetable below . You can call 01752 662271
Devonport Dump
December 18th, 2013Delight or Blight
There are a number of queries that I have as follows:
- The degree of blight
- The degree of delight
- Who decides what's available?
- Can the national government override local electors wishes?
- If the decision is dependent upon local support, where is this support to come from?
- Will the councillors represent the wishes of the electors?
- Will the councillors try and sell the dump deal to the electorate for a price?
- What would the councillors be dealling with, money for the community, gratitude from the community, re-election in the communitee and therefore a greater sense of their worth - at any cost or some cost? What is likely, is that those in favour will clearly deem they are to profit by it.
- How do we find out what the electors want?
- Who will provide arguments for and against? One things for sure those that argue for it can use peoples addicition to finacial gain as the primary benefit. Cleary no one would want a nuclear dump where they live, so only some material dupe could persuade someone to accept a deterioration in the environmental health of their surroundings.
- The assumption must be that no-one wants radioactive waste in their environment
- At the onset of nuclear polution very little was know and even less communicated about continuos low level hazard as it was a new phenomena (Note the ignorance about asbestose when it was first developed)
- Following decades of exposure, concerns are growing but it is difficult to escape as the deed has been done and the disposal of the radioactive mechanics is ongoing and a long term contaminant
- Clearly some disposal must happen, but before an agreement is made surely knowledge of future levels or preferably an arrangeent that it production will cease would help
- Manhandling radioactive material in a populated area is contrary to common sense.
- As there is no alternative to human involvement then the work should be done in the leaast populated area, with the minimum number of people given exceptional care and very high wages and or special health care
- The idea that the environental polution should be spread around a city so that more people can benefit from government grants designed to get a quick solution is ......
Who to Contact
Democratic Support :- Ross Jago 01752 (304469, 304867, 304022)
Ward Councillors (Dockyard/Keyam) :-
Mark Coaker (308313)
Bill Stevens (251713)
Nicky Wildy (07827 821925)
Next ward committee meeting 6pm, 30th March @ City College, Kings Road.
Before this meeting ot would be good to ask a few questions via the FIO Act
Spriggans, Knockers, Bucca
October 2nd, 2008Spriggans
Guardians of the vast treasures that are supposed to be buried under our immense carns and in our cliff castles. No matter if the work be carried on by night or by day, they are sure to punish the rash person who ventures to dig in hopes of securing them. When he has got some way down, he finds himself surrounded by hundreds of ugly beings, in some cases almost as tall as he, who scare the unhappy man until he loses all control over himself, throws down his tools, and rushes off as fast as he can possibly go. The fright often makes him so ill that he has to lie for days in bed. Should he ever summon up courage to return to the spot, he will find the pit refilled, and no traces show that the ground has been disturbed.
The spriggans were the bad. Hordes of them, hissing, spitting and grinning maliciously, protected every cliff top or granite cairn where treasure might be buried, for they were appointed to protect it.In the same way, they haunted the hundreds of ancient burial mounds, as well as the giant pre- historic tombs known as dolmens,which are found in Cornwall, particularly in the far west. Beneath these, it was thought, treasure lay beside the remains of pagan peoples who walked the Cornish moorlands thousands of years ago.
The spriggans were ugly, and much feared, wizened and shrivelled old men with large heads like those of children upon their puny little shoulders. They were able to raise sudden whirlwinds and storms to terrify the lonely traveller. They could summon rain and hail to lay the corn. Worse, they stole children from their cradles. So too, it might be said, did the piskies but whereas the latter chose neglected babes which their parents soon found again, well cared for and cherished, the spriggans selected bonny babes, leaving in their stead their own large-headed, wizened and ugly brats.
Knockers
Elfin creatures that lived in the mines. The miners treated the knockers with respect. they left food out for them. it was believed that anyone who was disrespectful to Knockers would suffer bad luck When a mine closed, the Knockers lived on in the abandoned mine.
Most mysterious of the elfin creatures of Cornwall were the knockers or knackers of the mines. These were, it is said, the spirits of old miners, perhaps those Jewish miners who worked underground in Cornwall a long time past. Those who have seen these sprites are few, but their descriptions of them tally; of ugly ,thin limbed creatures no higher than the smallest human dwarf, with large hooked noses - perhaps indeed they were the ghosts of Jews - slit mouths from ear to ear,and a great liking for making dreadful faces.
They were not above, for instance, crossing their eyes and thumbing their noses when they met you, or bending over to grimace at you between their spindly legs.There were also those who affirmed that the knockers were not the spirits of Jewish miners but of those who had crucified Christ. In support of this theory, they were said to be heard sweetly singing carols in the mines, not from choice but under compulsion, on Christmas Day, Easter Day, All Saint's Day and the Jewish Sabbath. Others believed the knockers were the souls of those whose deeds in this world allowed them entry neither into hell nor heaven - an interesting conjecture considering their living and working in the Cornish mines.
Supposedly, these tiny creatures were once upon a time much larger but were destined to shrink so much in size that each eventually became an ant, or murrian,and finally disappear, a fate in store for them since the birth of Christ. Knockers, of course, were a product of the imagination of a past race of Cornish miners, people of a naturally mystical and superstitious nature, which was enhanced by their working in the darkness of narrow, rock-hewn depths where the only light was shed by glimmering candles. In such eerie surroundings, with the pitchy silence broken only by the dripping of water, the faint tappings of other men working in distant levels elsewhere in the mine, or an occasional clatter of a falling stone, it is perhaps not that the most sceptical of Cornish miners came to believe in these underground spirits. It was well known that the sound of these little men, whose activity with picks and shovels, borers and barrows, was familiar to every underground worker, were full of fun amongst themselves when unobserved, but much soberer in behaviour when spied upon.
Generally speaking, the latter was not wise. Knockers were to be treated with respect, for although of a friendly disposition on the whole, they could be malicious towards any miner who failed, for example, to leave a portion of his underground meal - a piece of pasty, maybe - for one of their number to enjoy. Similarly,they were not to be sworn or shouted at and, indeed, the miner who did so was a fool, for the knockers worked only profitable ground, and would make themselves known only to those whom they favoured. Continuing bad luck might even dog those who were particularly disrespectful.
There were others in Cornwall who connected the name of these "underground piskies" with the "knocking" or "knacking" of a mine, that is, its closing or abandonment. Some popular beliefs had it that the appearance of knockers in a mine presaged its closing or that their arrival was otherwise an ill omen. It is said that in the hundreds of Cornwall's "knackt bals",or abandoned mines, that they live there still, keeping everlasting watch, awaiting the day when they can, as of old, guide miners towards the wealthy lodes which they themselves are aware of
Bucca
A goblin of the wind, once supposed by Cornish people to foretell shipwrecks. It is also a sprite fabled to live in the tin mines.
The bucca is a hobgoblin from the legends of Cornwall. They are commonly thought to live in tin mines.
The bucca are often associated with sailors and stories say they travel on sea breezes.
They are considered useful to sailors as they are known for their ability to foretell shipwrecks, but they need to be "paid" with offerings of part of the fisherman's catch or a few bread crumbs.
The Bucca is a sea spirit found off the coasts of Cornwall. Fishermen felt a need to propitiate it by leaving three fish out on the sands, in order to have a good catch of fish. There are said to be two Buccas, the Bucca-du (Black Bucca) and the Bucca-widn
(White Bucca).
Some think the Bucca was originally a sea deity that degenerated over the years into a fairy spirit.
They are considered useful to sailors as they are known for their ability to foretell shipwrecks, but they need to be "paid" with offerings of part of the fisherman's catch or a few bread crumbs.
Sources:
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, pp. 164, 175.
- Garvin: faerie Lore and Literature