Disused railway line in Devon and Cornwall, England
North Cornwall Railway
Map of the North Cornwall Railway system
Overview
Locale
South West England
Dates of operation
1886–1967
Successor
London & South Western Railway
Technical
Track gauge
Standard
The North Cornwall Railway was a railway line running from Halwill in Devon to Padstow in Cornwall via Launceston, Camelford and Wadebridge, a distance of 49 miles 67 chains (49.84 miles, 80.21 km). Opened in the last decade of the nineteenth century, it was part of a drive by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) to develop holiday traffic to Cornwall. The LSWR had opened a line connecting Exeter with Holsworthy in 1879,[1] and by encouraging the North Cornwall Railway it planned to create railway access to previously inaccessible parts of the northern coastal area.
"There are few more fascinating lines than the one which leads to North Cornwall from Okehampton"[2] says T.W.E. Roche in his popular tribute to the network of railway lines operated by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in North and West Devon and North Cornwall.
^Semmens, Peter (1988). The Withered Arm: the Southern West of Exeter. Weybridge: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1806-5.
^Roche, T.W.E. (1977). The Withered Arm: Reminiscences of the Southern Lines West of Exeter (new ed.). Bracknell: Forge Books.
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