Treffry opened the track from Newquay Harbour to St Dennis, with a branch to the important East Wheal Rose lead mine. In 1873 these were to form part of the […]
By 1847 Joseph Thomas Austen (he later changed his name to Treffry) had built a canal from Par to Ponts Mill, and a tramway from Ponts Mill to Molinnis near […]
The Liskeard and Caradon Railway
The Liskeard and Caradon Railway was built by the owners of the Liskeard and Looe Union Canal (opened 1828) to carry ore and granite from the Caradon area towards Looe. […]
Brunel’s Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash was completed in 1859 and for the first time rail travel and transport was possible between Penzance and Plymouth. Until 1867 the journey was […]
The Hayle Railway was extended westward, as the West Cornwall Railway, which began construction 1846. A passenger service from Penzance to Redruth started in 1852, and a year later to […]
The Hayle Railway was another line built to meet the mining industry’s need to move coal in and ore out of Cornwall. The line ran eastwards to Redruth, and from […]
The landowner Sir William Molesworth had this railway built to carry sea sand, used by farmers as manure, inland from Wadebridge. It opened in 1834, and from the beginning carried […]
Sir Christopher Hawkins built this railway, which opened in 1829, to support the growing china clay industry. It ran from just outside St. Austell to the port of Pentewan, four […]
Redruth and Chacewater Railway
Started in 1824, this railway also served the mines of Gwennap and Redruth, running south to the coastal river port of Devoran. It opened officially in 1826 and worked with […]
An underground tramway was in use in 1783 at Pentewan near St Austell in a tin working, but the earliest above-ground railroad in Cornwall was the horse-drawn mineral Poldice Tramway […]
