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...
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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...
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The Launceston Steam Railway is a 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge railway, in Cornwall, England. The railway operates from the town of Launceston...
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The North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway was a railway built to serve numerous ball clay pits that lay in the space between the London and...
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Port Isaac (category Populated coastal places in Cornwall)
Once goods from locations further inland were better served by the North Cornwall Railway, the economy of the port relied on pilchard fishing, probably a...
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There are smaller points of entry to Cornwall on minor roads. Launceston Steam Railway narrow-gauge heritage railway runs as a tourist attraction during...
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Padstow railway station (Cornish: Lannwedhenek) was the western terminus of the North Cornwall Railway. It was opened in 1899 by the London and South Western...
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(primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Cornwall Railway company constructed a railway line between Plymouth and Truro in the United Kingdom...
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Grand Trunk Railway (CN Rail) built an east-west line through Cornwall in 1856. The New York and Ottawa Railway (NY&O) followed with a north-south line...
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Delabole (redirect from Rockhead, Cornwall)
on the earliest one-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1813. When the North Cornwall Railway arrived, the station was named Delabole after the quarry, and the...
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later, it became a junction station with the construction by the North Cornwall Railway of a line south to Launceston which gave the latter company a direct...
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The Cornwall Minerals Railway owned and operated a network of 45 miles (72 km) of standard gauge railway lines in central Cornwall, England, United Kingdom...
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The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, Great Britain, formed in 1846 to construct a railway between Penzance and Truro. It purchased...
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Camel Trail (category Cycleways in Cornwall)
Cornwall Council and the Camel Trail Partnership. The trail follows the trackbed of two historic rail lines—a section of the North Cornwall Railway between...
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Stephen (2010). Cornwall's Railways Remembered. Halsgrove. pp. 51–52. ISBN 978-0-85704-005-3. "ROLLING STOCK". The North Cornwall Railway. Archived from...
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Truro and Newquay Railway was a Great Western Railway line in Cornwall, England, designed to keep the rival London and South Western Railway (LSWR) out of...
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The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was a railway line opened in 1834 in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It linked the quays at Wadebridge with the town...
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Padstow (redirect from Padstow, Cornwall)
Lannwedhenek) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town is situated on the west bank...
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Camelford (redirect from Trevia, Cornwall)
Camelford (Cornish: Reskammel) is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin...
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Cornwall is a town in Orange County, New York, United States, approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City on the western shore of the Hudson...
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Wadebridge (redirect from Wade, Cornwall)
Wadebridge (/ˈweɪdbrɪdʒ/; Cornish: Ponswad) is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town straddles the River Camel five miles...
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of the harbour. The opening of the Cornwall Railway from Plymouth in 1859 encouraged further expansion of Par north-eastwards towards Tywardreath. The...
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Cornwall (/ˈkɔːrnwɔːl, -wəl/; Cornish: Kernow; Cornish pronunciation: [ˈkɛrnɔʊ]; or [ˈkɛrnɔ]) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised...
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London and North Western Railway (LNWR) 2-2-2 No. 3020 Cornwall is a preserved steam locomotive. She was built as a 4-2-2 at Crewe Works in 1847, but was...
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Wenford Railway is a 6 miles 12 chains (9.9 km) heritage railway at Bodmin in Cornwall, England. Its headquarters are at Bodmin General railway station...
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The Cornwall Street Railway was an electric street railway in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada that operated from 1896 until 1949, and then as a trolleybus service...
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Egloskerry (category Villages in Cornwall)
Keith (1995). Branch Line to Padstow. Midhurst: Middleton Press Cornwall portal Media related to Egloskerry at Wikimedia Commons North Cornwall Railway...
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two miles (3 km) west of Camelford in north Cornwall, England, UK. It was located on the North Cornwall Railway and named after Delabole Quarry. There...
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as such) and the former Great Western Railway main line through Cornwall) from which secondary roads and railway branch lines radiate to ports and resorts...
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Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of Britain, is thought to have begun in the early-middle Bronze Age with the exploitation of cassiterite...
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