1. Richard Burningham - Manager

3. Exeter St Thomas

5. Marketing

6. Fourteen variants 60,000 produced Almost all distributed door to door – Royal Mail etc New run in early 2017

7. Marketing

8. Alfie & Juliette’s Day Out by train – filmed by Alban Roinard. 19k views on Facebook. Post seen by more than 43k.

9. Marketing www.greatscenicrailways.com Launched 7 May 2015 Visitors (May – August) 2015 36,000 2016 63,00075% increase Thanks to Google, links from Visit Cornwall adverts (10k) & Facebook campaign (8k) In July & August this year, more than 10,000 people visited GWR’s Journey Planner from our website – more than 1,000 a week

10. Schools and young people

11. More than 1,000 school children taken on on taster trips in 15/16

12. Heritage & Community Rail Tourism Innovation competition

13. South West Trains joins the Partnership

14. Designated Community Rail Development Fund Most projects already mentioned have been helped by this Fund. Department for Transport & ACoRP Available for Designated Lines & Services. This includes all Devon & Cornwall branch lines. £300k next year. Usually 100 or 200% match required. 2016/7 projects include £50,000 towards barcode/smartcard readers on Plymouth & Truro gatelines.

15. Signs of branch line stress? 2016 (Jan to Aug) 2001-162006-162015 - 16 Tarka395,677219%118%-4% /- 0.5% Tamar Valley117,87864%48%3% Looe Valley80,547112%59%3% Newquay61,064111%58%15% Maritime408,578265%161%-7% / - 2.1% St Ives Bay319,47069%17%-13% Avocet1,096,251120%96%3%

16. The build up to December 2018 December 2018 timetable a massive opportunity Increased frequencies, much more capacity Communications plan right through, from well in advance to well after service established 2008 – 11 Tarka Line up 47% Maritime Line up 96%

17. And finally…….