Editing Newquay (section)

==Transport==
=== Railway ===
[[File:2009 at Newquay railway station - the concourse canopy.jpg|thumb|Newquay railway station]]
[[Newquay railway station]] is the terminus of the [[Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall|Atlantic Coast Line]] from [[Par, Cornwall|Par]]. The railway was originally built as a mineral line in the 1840s and ran mainly around the fringes of the built-up area, as it was then, to the harbour. A passenger service followed on 20 June 1876, and from then on the town developed quickly as a resort. The station is close to the beaches on the eastern side of the town centre.

Newquay has daily direct services to and from Plymouth, Exeter and London between May and September. It is the only branch line terminus in Britain still served by scheduled intercity trains. Passenger services are currently operated under government contract by Great Western Railway, whose owner is FirstGroup.

==== History ====
The goods line which would be acquired later by the [[Cornwall Minerals Railway]] was opened in 1846 from inland mines to the harbour, and was worked by horses. Parts of the old line from the present station to the harbour are still in existence: the most obvious section is a broad footpath from opposite the station in Cliff Road to East Street, known locally as the "tram track", and complete with a very railway-style overbridge. From East Street, the line continued towards the harbour along the present-day Manor Road.

The last trains ran through to Newquay Harbour in about 1924, but general goods traffic continued to reach [[Newquay railway station]] until 1964. The passenger station and its approaches were enlarged more than once, with additional carriage sidings being built at Newquay in the 1930s. The originally wooden viaduct just outside the station, which crosses the Trenance Valley, was rebuilt in 1874 to allow [[locomotive]]s to run over the structure and then again just before [[World War II]] to carry double track, which extended until 1964 for approximately {{convert|1500|m|mi|abbr=on}} to Tolcarn Junction. The line is now single again, but the width of the viaduct is still obvious.

Tolcarn Junction was the point where a second passenger route left the Par line between 1906 and 1963. This branch ran to [[Chacewater]], west of Truro, via [[Perranporth]] and [[St Agnes, Cornwall|St Agnes]], and provided through trains to Truro and [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]].

Two of the three former platforms were taken out of use in 1987, but [[Network Rail]] had planned<ref>{{Cite web |title=Network Rail |url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/BusinessPlan2007/PDF/Route%2012%20Reading%20to%20Penzance.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911063232/http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/BusinessPlan2007/PDF/Route%2012%20Reading%20to%20Penzance.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2008 |access-date=16 August 2013 |publisher=Networkrail.co.uk}}]</ref> to restore one of the disused platforms to improve capacity.
[[File:Newquay 43138.jpg|thumb|First Great Western 43138 stands at Newquay railway station]]

==== Mid Cornwall Metro ====
The [[Mid Cornwall Metro]] received provisional approval for government funding worth almost £50 million on 18 January 2023,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-levelling-up-fund-to-spark-transformational-change-across-the-uk | title=Landmark Levelling up Fund to spark transformational change across the UK|publisher=Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2023/01/19-50m-of-rail-improvements-in.html|title=£50m of rail improvements in Cornwall approved|publisher=Railnews}}</ref> and the project was approved by Cornwall Council in December 2023, on condition that budgets are kept under control.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-streets/sustainable-transport/mid-cornwall-metro// | title=Green light for Mid Cornwall Metro initiative to transform transport links in Cornwall|publisher=Cornwall Council}}</ref>

A second platform was restored at Newquay in early 2025 and there will be other improvements to the terminus as well as upgraded signalling and an additional crossing place (a section of double track) at Tregoss Moor, between St Columb Road and Roche stations. This crossing place, 400m long, was laid during a month-long closure of the line in March 2025. The MCM will provide a clockface hourly service between Newquay, Par, St Austell, Truro and Falmouth Docks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mid Cornwall Metro |url=https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/western/mid-cornwall-metro/ |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=Network Rail |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Work is now under way.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://aecom.com/uk/press-releases/aecom-to-take-mid-cornwall-metro-through-to-detailed-design-stage/ | title=AECOM to take Mid Cornwall Metro through to detailed design stage|publisher=AECOM}}</ref> The frequency of trains to Par had been due to be doubled to hourly in May 2025, but this improvement has been delayed until later in the year. Newquay services are set to be extended to Truro and Falmouth in 2026.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://midcornwallmetro.com/ | title=Mid Cornwall Metro website|publisher=Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership and Mid Cornwall Metro}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/western/mid-cornwall-metro/ | title=Mid Cornwall Metro|publisher=Network Rail}}</ref>

===Airport===
[[File:Newquay Cornwall airport.jpg|thumb|[[Newquay Airport]]]]
[[Newquay Airport]] provides links to many other parts of the United Kingdom. It is an HM Customs port because it also handles increasing numbers of foreign flights, both scheduled and chartered. Newquay is the principal airport for Cornwall, although there are several minor airfields elsewhere in the county.

Until 2008, Newquay Civil Airport (as it was formerly known) used the runway and other facilities of [[RAF St Mawgan]], but in December 2008 the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] handed over most of the site to the recently formed Cornwall Airport Limited. The first stage of the conversion into a fully commercial airport was completed in 2011, although further substantial development is planned.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Cornwall Airport Newquay |url=http://www.newquaycornwallairport.com/about |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210101936/http://newquaycornwallairport.com/about |archive-date=10 December 2013 |access-date=20 November 2013 |website=Newquay Cornwall Airport}}</ref> The handover, which was due to take place at the end of 2008, was delayed for almost three weeks because of problems in obtaining the essential Civil Aviation Authority licence, which was withheld until further work had been carried out.

The name has changed several times since 2008, and the airport is now marketed as Cornwall Airport Newquay. However, the IATA code is still NQY.

Usage of the airport had been rising sharply until the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–22. On summer Saturdays in 2018 there were almost 50 arrivals and departures, including flights to Germany and other continental countries.<ref>{{Cite news |title=June sunshine encourages more visitors to Cornwall |work=Cornwall Newquay Airport |url=https://www.cornwallairportnewquay.com/press/press-releases/june-sunshine-encourages-more-visitors-to-cornwall |url-status=dead |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718174802/https://www.cornwallairportnewquay.com/press/press-releases/june-sunshine-encourages-more-visitors-to-cornwall |archive-date=18 July 2018}}</ref>

===Spaceport===
Newquay has obtained a licence to operate as a spaceport, called [[Spaceport Cornwall]].<ref name="firstspacelaunch2"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Spaceport Cornwall website |url=http://www.spaceportcornwall.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422204230/http://spaceportcornwall.com/ |archive-date=22 April 2017 |access-date=22 April 2017 |website=Spaceport Cornwall}}</ref> A decision had been expected about the sites of UK spaceports in the summer of 2017, but the additional general election in June 2017 delayed necessary legislation for a time. Cornwall's bid was supported by Cornwall Council and Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership. The proposal also included the related Cornish space tracking station at [[Goonhilly]], which is near Helston in south Cornwall. On 16 July 2018 a new partnership was announced with Virgin Orbit to create the spaceport, with the intention of launching satellites from Newquay within three years. On the same day, the government confirmed that a grant worth £2 million would be available to developing spaceports.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cornwall Spaceport is a go and this is what it will mean for you |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-spaceport-go-what-means-1527844 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716170053/https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-spaceport-go-what-means-1527844 |archive-date=16 July 2018 |access-date=16 July 2018 |website=Cornwall Live|date=16 July 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=One giant leap: Vertical launch spaceport to bring UK into new space age |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/one-giant-leap-vertical-launch-spaceport-to-bring-uk-into-new-space-age |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716105713/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/one-giant-leap-vertical-launch-spaceport-to-bring-uk-into-new-space-age |archive-date=16 July 2018 |access-date=16 July 2018 |website=Department for Transport}}</ref> The planned first satellite from Newquay, Kernow Sat 1, was to measure ocean pollution and deforestation and was planned to be launched in summer 2022 (in the end, Kernow Sat 1 was not present on the first launch from Spaceport Cornwall in 2023<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graham |first=William |date=2023-01-09 |title=Virgin Orbit fails on first mission from the UK with Start Me Up |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/01/virgin-orbit-start-me-up/ |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=NASASpaceFlight.com |language=en-US}}</ref>). On 24 February 2022, the then Business Secretary, [[Kwasi Kwarteng]], formally launched the construction of a £5.6m Centre for Space Technologies alongside the Spaceport, and the new Centre is expected to create 150 jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cornwall Space technology centre 'hugely exciting' says minister |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-60495246 |access-date=25 February 2022 |website=BBC News|date=24 February 2022 }}</ref> The first, unsuccessful, attempt to launch satellites took place on 9 January 2023.<ref name="firstspacelaunch1"/><ref name="firstspacelaunch2"/>

{{Infobox station
| name               = Newquay Bus Station
| image              = Newquay Bus Station - Go Cornwall 2025 (WA20DVN).JPG
| caption            = Newquay Bus Station
| address            = Manor Road, Newquay, Cornwall, TR7 1JQ
| owned              = [[Transport for Cornwall]]
| bus_routes         = 19
| bus_stands         = 2
| bus_operators      = [[Western Greyhound]] (until 2015) <br />
Go Cornwall Bus <br />
[[Kernow (bus company)]] 
| website            = https://www.visitnewquay.org/visitor-information/newquay-bus-station-p1539193
}}

===Bus===
[[File:Newquay Bus Station - First 33475 (WK66BYZ).JPG|left|thumb|187x187px|Kernow's U1 route originally linked the university campus near Falmouth with Truro but has now been extended across the county to Newquay]]
The bus station is in Manor Road, which runs parallel to the shopping area in Bank Street. A scheme to upgrade and improve the bus station with the additions of a new enclosed waiting area and accessible toilet began in February 2018 and was completed in July. Further changes occurred in April and May 2020, because [[Cornwall Council]] had awarded an eight-year contract to run subsidised services in the county to Go Cornwall, which also operates as [[Plymouth Citybus|Plymouth CityBus]] and is owned by the [[Go-Ahead Group]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=New contract award means new bus routes, more frequent services and greener buses in Cornwall from April 2020 |url=https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/council-news-room/media-releases/news-from-2020/news-from-january-2020/new-contract-award-means-new-bus-routes-more-frequent-services-and-greener-buses-in-cornwall-from-april-2020/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001202641/https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/council-news-room/media-releases/news-from-2020/news-from-january-2020/new-contract-award-means-new-bus-routes-more-frequent-services-and-greener-buses-in-cornwall-from-april-2020/ |archive-date=1 October 2020 |access-date=19 January 2020 |publisher=Cornwall Council}}</ref>

There are regular bus services from Newquay to many parts of Cornwall, including the neighbouring urban centres of [[St Austell]] and Truro as well as [[Camborne]], Falmouth, [[Fowey]], [[Padstow]], [[Perranporth]], [[Redruth]], [[St Columb Major]], [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]] and [[Wadebridge]]. In addition, there are several local services, including an hourly night bus service on Saturday nights/Sunday mornings to St Columb Major and [[Fraddon]] during the peak summer months. Buses are operated by [[First Kernow]] and [[Plymouth Citybus|Go Cornwall Bus]] while the town is also served by [[National Express Coaches|National Express]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newquay Bus Station - Visitor Information |url=https://www.visitnewquay.org/visitor-information/newquay-bus-station-p1539193 |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=www.visitnewquay.org}}</ref>

Go Cornwall operates frequent services in the high summer to and from a [[park and ride]] site by the A392, opposite Hendra Holiday Park.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hop on board - Newquay Park and Ride is back for the summer! - Cornwall Council |url=https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news/transport-streets-and-waste/hop-on-board-newquay-park-and-ride-is-back-for-the-summer/ |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=www.cornwall.gov.uk |archive-date=25 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725180509/https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news/transport-streets-and-waste/hop-on-board-newquay-park-and-ride-is-back-for-the-summer/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>