The Hayle Railway was an early railway in West Cornwall, constructed to convey copper and tin ore from the Redruth and Camborne areas to sea ports at Hayle...
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Hayle (Cornish: Heyl, lit. "estuary") is a port town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the mouth of the Hayle...
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Hayle railway station (Cornish: Heyl) serves the small town of Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Great Western Railway manage the station and operate most...
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Truro. It purchased the existing Hayle Railway, and improved its main line, and built new sections between Penzance and Hayle, and between Redruth and Truro...
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Mining in Cornwall and Devon (section Hayle Railway)
quay at Calstock on the Tamar. The Hayle Railway opened in 1837, serving engineering works and copper quays at Hayle and the copper mines of Redruth and...
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back to the Hayle Railway, opened on 23 December 1837. It now forms Network Rail's Cornish Main Line. The trains of the South Devon Railway finally reached...
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23255°W / 50.23157; -5.23255 The Hayle Railway opened a station on the west side of Redruth on 31 May 1838. The railway had been built to move goods to...
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The Hayle Estuary (Cornish: Heyl, meaning estuary) is an estuary in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is one of the few natural harbours on the...
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for Hollis Seaplane Base, Alaska, US HYL, the National Rail code for Hayle railway station, Cornwall, UK Hyl (unit) or metric slug, a unit of mass Nils...
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Angarrack (category Hayle)
Gwinear-Gwithian a mile to the east of Hayle. Immediately south of the village Angarrack viaduct carries the Cornish mainline railway over the Angarrack River. The...
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and the harbours at Hayle and Portreath but a passenger service started on 26 May 1843. The West Cornwall Railway took over the Hayle company on 3 November...
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Portreath (section Tramroads and railways)
of the Hayle Railway was incorporated into the route of the West Cornwall Railway in 1852; the branch line finally closed in 1936. The railways and Portreath...
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including previous Hayle Railway, transferred to GWR 1 January 1868 Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway opened 11 July 1853 Wycombe Railway opened 1 August...
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Cornish Main Line (category Railway lines in South West England)
in 1859. The West Cornwall Railway was itself based on the Hayle Railway, opened in 1837 as a purely local mineral railway. Rail travel from Penzance...
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carry passengers was the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway (B&WR) on 4 July 1834. In the west the Hayle Railway connected that port with Redruth at the end of...
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to go round via Hayle. Hayle estuary is a RSPB reserve. The water is crossed using a road bridge beside the historic broad-gauge railway swing-bridge and...
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Lelant railway station (Cornish: Lannanta) is on the waterfront of the Hayle estuary below the village of Lelant in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The station...
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Penponds Viaduct (category Railway viaducts in Cornwall)
minor road known as Viaduct Lane. The Hayle Railway opened the railway through this site in 1837 to link Hayle and Redruth. To overcome a significant...
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and South Devon Railway (1872) West Cornwall Railway (1 February 1876) ‡ Hayle Railway (1846) Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway (1876) Wellington...
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The Hayle and Bristol Steam Packet Company operated steam ship services between Hayle, Ilfracombe and Bristol in the mid nineteenth century. Confusingly...
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mining industry. In the expanding town gasworks were opened in 1834, the Hayle Railway was built (1834–37) and Holmans opened a small foundry in 1839. The...
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Slip coach (category Railway coaches of the United Kingdom)
for several years. Another early example of slip services was on the Hayle Railway which started passenger operations in 1843. The company operated three...
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(37 mi) of trails, which largely follow the routes of former tram and railway lines for transporting goods and materials to and from the many copper...
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its own platform was opened, but the line was only doubled eastwards to Hayle on 10 September 1899, and westwards to Marazion on 16 June 1929. Beyond...
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Aberystwyth Harbour Act 1780 (20 Geo. 3. c. 26) Gateshead and Monks Wearmouth Railway Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. lxxxiii) Dundee Harbour Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4...
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USS Cornubia (category Ships built in Hayle)
over her paddle wheels, she plied the Hayle/St Ives to Bristol route in the days when the Great Western Railway had not penetrated as far as West Cornwall...
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(Repealed by Perth Burgh and Harbour (No. 2) Act 1856 (c.cxxxviii)) Hayle Railway Act 1834 4 & 5 Will. 4. c. lxviii 27 June 1834 West Cork Mining Company...
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Somerset Cricket Board, 2002 Cricket portal Cornwall portal Roskear Croft Hayle Railway, which ran through Roskear List of Cornwall County Cricket Club grounds...
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Hayles Abbey Halt railway station is a halt opened by the Great Western Railway on the Honeybourne Line from Honeybourne to Cheltenham which served the...
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Angarrack viaduct (category Hayle)
railway across the steep-sided valley of the Angarrack River, a tributary of the River Hayle, between the present day stations of Camborne and Hayle....
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