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    The Pentewan Railway (Cornish: Hyns-horn Bentewyn) was a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway in Cornwall, England. It was built as a horse-drawn tramway...
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    Pentewan (Cornish: Bentewyn, meaning foot of the radiant stream) is a coastal village and former port in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is...
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  • North London Railway incorporated 1846 original name: East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway Pentewan Railway The railway from St Austell...
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    Austell to Pentewan road. The inn traded from 1815 to 1871 and probably longer. In 1833, a coalyard was constructed on the Pentewan Railway situated near...
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    Cornwall Junction Railway which is still partly open, and the short-lived Trenance Valley line. The independent narrow gauge Pentewan Railway ran from West...
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  • miles (167 km) Milford Haven Dock and Railway: 1+1⁄4 miles (2 km) Pentewan Railway: 2 ft 6 in (762 mm); 4 miles (6 km); temporarily closed 1923 Trafford...
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    events in British railway history happened on narrow-gauge railways including the first use of steam locomotives, the first public railway and the first preserved...
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    Lansalson branch line (category Closed railway lines in South West England)
    carted to Charlestown Harbour at first, and then to Pentewan over the Pentewan Railway. As railways developed in Cornwall a number of direct access points...
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    418; 0.530 The Chattenden and Upnor Railway (also known as the Lodge Hill and Upnor Railway) was a narrow gauge railway serving the military barracks and...
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    A list of 2 ft 6 in gauge railways in the United Kingdom. The private Statfold Barn Railway in England runs railway equipment with two different track...
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  • nearby Pentewan Railway. Fell's survey was notable for its use of ten wooden viaducts, which were an unusual feature for a British railway. The railway was...
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    0-6-0ST's in 1873 for the Bay of Havana Railway (see below), one (later two) 0-6-0's for the Pentewan Railway in Cornwall, and several 'Quasi-Fell' six-coupled...
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  • of railways in Cornwall, Devon and Wales The Pentewan Railway Rail & Sail to Pentewan Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway Slate Quarry Railways of Gwynedd...
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    its past industrial importance. There were also plans to extend the Pentewan railway along the valley from St Austell, but they did not come to fruition...
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  • 194) Elementary Education Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75) Regulation of Railways Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 48) Colonial Attorneys Relief Act 1857 (20 &...
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    use of narrow gauge industrial railways in the UK. Leighton Buzzard Light Railway quarry locomotive Red Rum Pentewan Dock & Concrete Company locomotive...
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  • substantially rebuilt the harbour at Pentewan to serve as a china clay port, connected to St Austell by the Pentewan Railway, a horse-drawn tramway. Sir Christopher...
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    John Barraclough Fell (category English railway mechanical engineers)
    Whilst it has become commonly accepted that the locomotive Pentewan for Cornwall's Pentewan Railway was the first Manning Wardle product built under Fell's...
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    northwards course through Gorran Haven and the fishing harbour at Mevagissey to Pentewan where the once busy dock has silted up with sand. The path then climbs...
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  • London (3.1 miles) Pegasus Way: Okehampton to Halwill, Devon Pentewan Trail: St Austell to Pentewan, Cornwall (8 miles) Perry Way: part of Stafford- Wellington...
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    Polmear beach was dug out to become Charlestown harbour circa 1800, as was Pentewan in 1826. Joseph Austen shipped copper from Caffa Mill Pill above Fowey...
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    the river flows south along the Pentewan Valley, which extends for 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), to the village of Pentewan where the river enters the English...
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    estuary there were several routes. These went to Fowey, somewhere near Pentewan and to the River Fal. The east-west route was diverted northwards because...
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    GWR road motor services (category Great Western Railway)
    and Bodmin the following month. Other routes were added to Charlestown, Pentewan (3 August 1908), Newquay (29 May 1910), Truro (1911), Trenarren (1 August...
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  • crew were rescued. Busy was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Pentewan, Cornwall. She came ashore at Port Isaac, Cornwall. Caledonia  United Kingdom...
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    port side. Two crew drowned. 11 October – while in ballast and bound for Pentewan from Cherbourg the St Louis lost her mast near the Wolf Rock and eventually...
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  • Eliza ( United Kingdom) went ashore on the western end of the beach at Pentewan; the crew were saved. 29 September – the 84-ton schooner Arab ( United...
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    completely surrounded the village of Mevagissey, which was evacuated. Pentewan residents dubbed a £1,300,000 flood relief scheme approved by the Environment...
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  • the Beaumaris Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Pentewan, Cornwall. Mary Canada The schooner was lost in a storm off Petit-de-Grat...
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  • Copenhagen. Telegram  United Kingdom The ship struck a submerged object at Pentewan, Cornwall and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Fowey to Pentewan....
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