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The Cornish China Clay Branches are a number of railway branch lines that serve facilities that produce or process China Clay.The area of Cornwall north of St Austell stretching from Bodmin Moor towards Truro is known for the extraction and processing of commercial volumes of China Clay, and with the expansion of the railways in the 19th century a number of lines were constructed to access ...
According to the Imerys Blueprint For Cornwall published in 2003: 1858 – 15,154 tons of china clay went out through Par 1885 – 86,325 tons 1987 – 700,000 tons 2002 – 313,425 tons + 134,810 tons of aggregates Treffry Estates sold the harbour to English China Clay (ECC) in 1964 having leased it to them since 1946. In the 1950s and 1960s ...
Today china clay is piped to the harbour in slurry form; most is dried in large sheds before exporting either from Par or Fowey, the two being linked by a private road. One berth at Par can also load clay slurry into coasting vessels. The harbour also has a rail link that is used to carry away dried clay loaded in rail vans. [9]
Whereas in the 19th century, numerous branches and sidings had been built in Central Cornwall to reach china clay deposits, by the 20th century, it had become normal practice to bring china clay to the railway in slurry form in pipelines, and numerous clay dries were constructed adjacent to existing lines.
The 0.6-hectare (1.5-acre) SSSI, notified in 2000, comprises three separate sites that are all about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the town of St Austell. [1] [2] They all lie within china clay workings which are still active and are situated on either pits, spoil tips or vegetation-covered granitic debris. [3]
The Clay Trails are a series of bicycle trails located in mid Cornwall, ... A kilometre from the entrance to the trail is the disused Carlyon Farm china clay dries ...
The Cornwall & Devon Central company had yet to get parliamentary approval for construction, but it purchased the Bodmin & Wadebridge line for £35,000. In fact the C&DC lost out in its bid for approval for its line, and the London & South Western company itself purchased the Bodmin & Wadebridge line for the same £35,000 from the C&DC company ...
English China Clays was incorporated in April 1919 through the amalgamation of three of the largest producers: Martin Bros.(established in 1837), West of England China Clay & Stone (1849) and the North Cornwall China Clay Company (1908). [1] The three companies accounted for around half the industry's output at the time. [2]