North Cornwall Railway
Disused railway line in Devon and Cornwall, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Locale | South West England |
Dates of operation | 1886–1967 |
Successor | London & South Western Railway |
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Track gauge | Standard |
"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.