In answer to Phileas, who said:
Do you believe for one minute that all the punters in/out of NQY actually live in Newquay and at the end of that very slow branch line?
No of course I don't, I was trying to respond to the point made by Skipness using an example of how poor/slow land-based public transport is in Cornwall.
In fact, the rail service in most of Devon and Cornwall (west of Exeter, anyway) is very constrained by ageing and under-invested infrastructure.