Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping
Southern Railway Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
4 July 1834
Opened
3 September 1888
Rebuilt
30 January 1967
Closed to passengers
2 September 1978
Closed to freight
Wadebridge railway station (Cornish: Ponswad) was a railway station that served the town of Wadebridge in Cornwall, England. It was on the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway.
It opened in 1834 to transport goods between Wadebridge, the limit of navigation on the River Camel, and inland farming and mining areas. The railway was built to take stone from local quarries such as the De Lank Quarries on Bodmin Moor towards the coast, as well as sand dredged from the River Camel and landed at the quays in Wadebridge inland to be used to improve the heavy local soil. The station is situated just upstream of Wadebridge bridge and almost next to the tidal River Camel; a fact that prompted the former Poet Laureate John Betjeman to write in his autobiography "On Wadebridge station what a breath of sea scented the Camel Valley! Cornish air, soft Cornish rains, and silence after steam".[1]
^Betjeman, John (2007). Summoned by Bells. London: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-7195-2220-8.
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