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The railways themselves operated bus routes, the first in the country being a GWR service from Helston railway station to The Lizard in 1903. [ 4 ] During the 1960s many of the quieter stations and lines were closed, either as a result of Dr Beeching's Reshaping of British Railways or general commercial considerations.
The Cornish Main Line was originally built by two separate railway companies, the West Cornwall Railway between Truro and Penzance, opened in 1852, and the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and a separate station in Truro, opened in 1859. The West Cornwall Railway was itself based on the Hayle Railway, opened in 1837 as a purely local mineral ...
The Cornwall Railway was a 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, England, built in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was constantly beset with shortage of capital for the construction, and was eventually forced to sell its line to the dominant Great Western Railway .
The Tamar Bridge (background) and Royal Albert Bridge (foreground) carry road and rail links into Cornwall. The inland transport network consists of longitudinal spines (the A30, A38 and A39 trunk roads (though the A39 is no longer designated as such) and the former Great Western Railway main line through Cornwall) from which secondary roads and railway branch lines radiate to ports and ...
Heritage railway stations in Cornwall (8 P) Pages in category "Railway stations in Cornwall" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
The North Cornwall Railway (NCR) also known as the North Cornwall Line, was a standard gauge railway line running from Halwill in Devon, to Padstow in Cornwall, at a distance of 49 miles 67 chains (49.84 miles, 80.21 km) via Launceston, Camelford and Wadebridge.
Caerphilly Railway Society, Caerphilly Railway Works – closed 1996, moved to Gwili Railway; Gloddfa Ganol, Blaenau Ffestiniog - museum of narrow-gauge railways, closed in 1998, stock sold at auction; Swansea Vale Railway, Pentrechwyth – closed in 2009, (most of the track and rolling stock are now located on the Gwili Railway).
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 ...
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