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The busiest stations are Plymouth, Penzance and Truro which all handle more than one million people arriving or departing each year. St Austell, Redruth and Liskeard all had more than 300,000 people in 2011-12, increases of around 50% or 60% over 2004/05.
Plymouth was an American Schooner barge that sank during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 in Lake Michigan, near St. Martins Island at the mouth of Green Bay, while she was being towed by the tug James H. Martin from Menominee, Michigan, United States to Lake Huron.
A view of the station in 1972. The 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge East Cornwall Mineral Railway was opened from the quay at Calstock to Kelly Bray on 8 May 1872. It was replaced by the present Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway route across Calstock Viaduct on 2 March 1908 which saw passenger trains introduced.
Plymouth: Unknown [12] Myrtle 50 ft Sloop: Robert May 1896 Danescombe Quay, Calstock, Cornwall: Bomded by the Luftwaffe during the Plymouth Blitz, sank in the Hamoaze, next to Devonport Naval Base. [17] [12] Pearl 52 ft Cutter: Frederick Hawke 1896 Stonehouse, Plymouth: Abandoned at Hooe Lake [18] Phoenix 51.9 ft Cutter: Frederick Hawke 1900 ...
The railway from Plymouth to Gunnislake is designated as a community railway and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. The line is promoted under the "Tamar Valley Line" name. The Tamar Inn in Calstock is part of the Tamar Valley Line rail ale trail, which is designed to promote the use of the line. [5]
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The line from St Budeaux to Bere Alston was opened for passenger traffic on 2 June 1890 by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PDSWJ) as part of their line from Lydford to Devonport, which in effect was an extension of the London and South Western Railway's main line from London Waterloo station to Lydford, enabling the LSWR to reach Plymouth independently of the Great ...
Local interests promoted a Devon and Cornwall Central Railway which obtained an authorising act of Parliament, the Devon and Cornwall Central Railway Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. ccxxviii), on 18 August 1882 to build a line from Lidford to Calstock, where it would join an existing short mineral line, the East Cornwall Mineral Railway (ECMR), [note 1] which it would purchase and convert it to ...