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Cornwall Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Eastbound mail at Lostwithiel.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7223.jpg "Lostwithiel")
![Looking west at Liskeard on the mainline.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7287.jpg "Liskeard")
![Liskeard bay platform. Amazingly at 90 degree to the main line platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7309.jpg "Liskeard")
![125 approaches Lostwithiel level crossing at speed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7332.jpg "Lostwithiel")
![Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge spanning the River Tamar between Devon and Cornwall. The bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859, the year Brunel died. The name of the great engineer was later placed above the portals at each end of the bridge as a memorial.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/13000/13934.jpg "Royal Albert Bridge")
![D1051 <I>Western Ambassador</I> arrives at Liskeard in the 1970s.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/38000/38490.jpg "Liskeard")
![Extract from a 6 inch map from around 1913 showing the curious (unique?) arrangement at Liskeard. In railway terms the scene is little changed today with Looe branch trains departing from the separate station at right angles to the main platforms then dropping down through a 180 degree curve to pass under the main line via Liskeard viaduct [See image 29447]. There are a number of photographs of Liskeard and the Looe line on Railscot.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett //1913]](/images/58000/58686.jpg "Liskeard")
![GWR 5700 class 0-6-0PT no 3709 photographed on Truro shed in August 1960. <br><br>[K A Gray 10/08/1960]](/images/40000/40078.jpg "Truro")
![Truro station looking east in 1962. The cathedral visible through the footbridge.<br><br>[John Thorn /08/1962]](/images/26000/26126.jpg "Truro")
![Lostwithiel station looking west in September 1962. The wagons on the left carry china clay to the port at Fowey. [See image 17877]<br><br>[John Thorn /09/1962]](/images/26000/26144.jpg "Lostwithiel")
![Bus meets Western at Bodmin Road, summer 1971.<br><br>[David Spaven //1971]](/images/36000/36651.jpg "Bodmin Road")
![Milk tanks for Kensington Olympia awaiting collection at St Erth in July 1974.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 13/07/1974]](/images/37000/37466.jpg "St Erth")
![No 6 shunting Falmouth Docks in July 1975.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 21/07/1975]](/images/33000/33201.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![D1041 <I>Western Prince</I> arrives at St Austell in 1979 looking the worse for wear. Happily the locomotive was rescued following withdrawal by BR and is currently undergoing refurbishment and restoration by the Bury Diesel Group on the ELR.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1979]](/images/32000/32840.jpg "St Austell")
![A class 50 stands at St Austell in August 1981 with an up <I>Motorail</I> service to Kensington Olympia.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 18/08/1981]](/images/20000/20545.jpg "St Austell")
![Scene at St Erth, first stop out of Penzance, in August 1992, with an InterCity 125 on a Paddington service alongside the St Ives branch train.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 15/08/1982]](/images/18000/18560.jpg "St Erth")
![Green liveried 50007 <I>Sir Edward Elgar</I> (formerly <I>Hercules</I>) at St Erth on an up TPO on 1 May 1984.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/05/1984]](/images/19000/19701.jpg "St Erth")
![50007 <I>Sir Edward Elgar</I> with an up TPO at St Erth in May 1984. The class 50 had received its new nameplates a week earlier (having previously carried the name <I>Hercules</I>).<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/05/1984]](/images/42000/42760.jpg "St Erth")
![Replenishing the water supply at Largin signal box between Liskeard and Bodmin Parkway in June 1984.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /06/1984]](/images/37000/37906.jpg "Largin")
![Hastings DEMU set 1032 with the Hertfordshire Rail Tours special 1Z20 <I>The Gunnislake Goliath</I> during a photostop at Saltash station on 21 December 1985. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore 21/12/1985]](/images/43000/43936.jpg "Saltash")
![<I>The Gunnislake Goliath</I> during a photostop at Saltash station on 21 December 1985. The Hertfordshire Rail Tours special ran from Waterloo and was handled throughout by Hastings DEMU set 1032.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 21/12/1985]](/images/44000/44998.jpg "Saltash")
![Branch railcar at Par station in August 1989.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1989]](/images/37000/37405.jpg "Par")
![The branch railcar stands at St Erth, Cornwall, in 1992 prior to making its next trip along the coast to St Ives.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1992]](/images/18000/18990.jpg "St Erth")
![Railcar 55012 stands at Falmouth Docks station in March 1992.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 12/03/1992]](/images/35000/35204.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![A DMU stands at Falmouth Docks station in August 1992 following arrival on a service from Truro.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1992]](/images/39000/39476.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![Looking back along the disused line serving Falmouth Docks in August 1992.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1992]](/images/41000/41059.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![A St Ives train arrives at St Erth in August 1995 formed by a class 108 DMU.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1995]](/images/35000/35308.jpg "St Erth")
![Main line and branch line services side by side at St Erth in August 1995.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1995]](/images/36000/36792.jpg "St Erth")
![Platform scene at St Erth in August 1995. A Penzance - Plymouth service stands at the main line platform with the St Ives branch train in the bay.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1995]](/images/39000/39856.jpg "St Erth")
![A DMU stands at Penmere, Cornwall, on 16 June 1999. The station is on the Truro - Falmouth 'Maritime' route and serves the northern part of Falmouth. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore 16/06/1999]](/images/35000/35882.jpg "Penmere")
![Platform scene at Par on 1 June 2002, with a DMU approaching the station off the Newquay line.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/53000/53317.jpg "Par")
![Quiet period at Par station, looking north east in the summer of 2002. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/59000/59844.jpg "Par")
![A Penzance - Paddington HST at Liskeard platform 2 on 1 June 2002<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/60000/60141.jpg "Liskeard")
![A Penzance - Glasgow Central Virgin CrossCountry service calls at Par on 1 June 2002.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/60000/60453.jpg "Par")
![First Great Western power car 43029 brings up the rear of a Paddington - Penzance service at Liskeard on 1 June 2002.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/60000/60889.jpg "Liskeard")
![Road approach to Liskeard station, Cornwall, on a grey day in June 2002. [Ref query 30 October 2017]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/61000/61493.jpg "Liskeard")
![An afternoon Paddington - Penzance HST slowing for the Liskeard stop on 1st June 2002.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/62000/62653.jpg "Liskeard")
![A misty morning at Par station in June 2002, with 150246 standing alongside platform 3 with the next Newquay branch train. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/62000/62854.jpg "Par")
![150221 operating the Looe branch train, recently arrived at Liskeard in June 2002.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/06/2002]](/images/62000/62965.jpg "Liskeard")
![158826 arriving at Liskeard on a rainy day in June 2002 with a Penzance - Plymouth service. [Ref query 1083] <br><br>[Ian Dinmore 02/06/2002]](/images/59000/59787.jpg "Liskeard")
![A Wessex Trains DMU for Truro awaits its departure time at Falmouth Docks in the summer of 2002.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 02/06/2002]](/images/59000/59931.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![Train and passenger waiting in the sunshine at Falmouth Docks station in the summer of 2002. Wessex Trains 150246 forms the 1320 service to Truro. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore 12/06/2002]](/images/62000/62542.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![Burngullow looking east. The right hand line is for Penzance and the left for various works. The right line has subsequently been doubled through to Probus.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /09/2002]](/images/11000/11880.jpg "Burngullow")
![The Paddington bound <I>Cornish Riviera Express</I> HST aproaching Par in 2007<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //2007]](/images/32000/32153.jpg "Par")
![Two FGW <I>Bubble Cars</I> led by 153373 approach the Falmouth Docks passenger terminus on a service from Truro. On the right the link to the disused goods branch into the dockyard can be seen.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/09/2008]](/images/20000/20748.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![A view towards the buffers under the distinctive Falmouth Docks canopy showing one of the disused goods sidings associated with the dockyard alongside and a ship under refit beyond<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/09/2008]](/images/20000/20752.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![Penmere Platform was a late opening in 1925 serving a suburb of Falmouth. It is well maintained and the replica signs add to the atmosphere. 153382 leads a Truro service. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/09/2008]](/images/20000/20793.jpg "Penmere")
![The magnificent running in board at Penmere Platform and replica <I>totem</I>. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/09/2008]](/images/20000/20794.jpg "Penmere")
![The Falmouth branch train, formed of 153382/73 waits in the bay at the west end of Truro. The down main line is signalled for both directions for the half mile from here to the branch junction.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/09/2008]](/images/20000/20842.jpg "Truro")
![View west at Truro as 150232 on Platform 3 loads a sizeable number of passengers for an up Penzance to Plymouth service. The Falmouth bay is at the far end of the down platform. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/09/2008]](/images/20000/20973.jpg "Truro")
![View east over the level crossing at Truro and towards the viaduct as the <I>Home Secretary</I> waits patiently to go for lunch. The lower quadrant semaphore is off for a Plymouth departure. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/09/2008]](/images/20000/20979.jpg "Truro")
![Replica Western Region <I>totems</I> and other signs add to the atmosphere at Penmere, which serves a suburb of Falmouth. FGW 153373 is on the tail of a service departing for Truro in September 2008.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/09/2008]](/images/21000/21645.jpg "Penmere")
![Traditional <I>running in</I> board at Perranwell at the Truro end of the surviving platform. It is mounted between two old rails and although this is a fairly basic halt the old sign adds character to the Falmouth Branch station. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2008]](/images/20000/20929.jpg "Perranwell")
![Falmouth Branch intermediate station Perranwell used to be a passing loop but is now a single platform. There is talk of reinstating a loop on the branch to increase capacity but it will probably be at Penryn nearer to the terminus. View towards Truro. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2008]](/images/20000/20933.jpg "Perranwell")
![A view towards Falmouth along the platform at Perranwell, one of the intermediate halts on the picturesque branch from Truro. The passing loop has been removed but the disused up platform can still be seen.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2008]](/images/21000/21693.jpg "Perranwell")
![A 125 going east over the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash on the 3rd of May 2009. Part of the deck of the much newer road bridge is seen directly below Brunel's iconic structure.<br><br>[Neville Davies 03/05/2009]](/images/31000/31239.jpg "Royal Albert Bridge")
![On the right the Wednesdays only St Blazey - Penzance (Long Rocks) - St Blazey oil train scoots east back through Burngullow. On this occasion this was one tank. To the left is a <i>Steelman</i> locomotive in the Blackpool Driers sidings. The mainline (the two tracks to the right) between here and Probus (9 miles west) has been re-doubled in recent years. [See image 11880.]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/11/2009]](/images/26000/26502.jpg "Burngullow")
![A First Great Western 125 at Par, Cornwall, looking south over the station on 18 November 2009.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/11/2009]](/images/44000/44738.jpg "Par")
![Looking west at Plymouth. The closed line to the left, (with the 'paperclip' sculpture on the dismantled viaduct), was the west to south curve of the branch to Millbay. Behind the camera was the south to east curve and Plymouth station at the junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/11/2009]](/images/26000/26944.jpg "Devonport Junction")
![A 125 passes Dockyard (Devonport) in the foreground and approaches Keyham station crossing a viaduct of the same name. There's something reminscent of Durham in the pattern of those roofs to the right. In a very short distance the line crosses numerous viaducts going west from Plymouth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/11/2009]](/images/26000/26609.jpg "Dockyard")
![Keyham Viaduct soars over the buildings below. The section of line heading west out of Plymouth crosses several substantial viaducts in quick succession. The view looks north west at the viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/11/2009]](/images/28000/28022.jpg "Keyham Viaduct")
![<I>Par excellence!</I> Par is a junction station with its original buildings and where main line trains still connect with branch line services. There are freight trains on the main line and branch too and all movements in the station are controlled by lower quadrant semaphores. 150248 waits to form a service to Newquay in this view towards Lostwithiel on 15 June 2010.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29395.jpg "Par")
![The magnificent Liskeard viaduct, carrying the Cornish main line, as seen from the Looe branch train that has just passed under this structure while climbing from Coombe Junction up to Liskeard. For a superb picture that exemplifies the steep gradient on this link line [see image 17767].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29447.jpg "Liskeard")
![Brunel's famous Saltash suspension bridge over the Tamar estuary (or as it is technically known - lenticular truss viaduct), as seen from an approaching Penzance to Exeter train, which is just about to call at Saltash station and then swing sharply right onto the bridge approach. Under the left hand span the Ernsettle Royal Navy depot, rail served from the Gunnislake branch that runs along the far shore, can be seen. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29511.jpg "Saltash")
![The signal is back at danger and the barriers starting to rise as the last wagon in the train of china clay for Fowey clears the crossing. 66093 is drawing its train from Goonbarrow into the Up Loop on the main line where it will run round and then head back through Lostwithiel station to join the branch to Fowey. View towards Bodmin Road.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29563.jpg "Lostwithiel")
![66093 slows through Lostwithiel station to enter the Up Loop with a train of china clay for Fowey that it has brought down from Rocks Dries at Goonbarrow Junction [See image 29396]. The bracket semaphore signal controlling access to the Fowey line is just off the end of the Down platform. The former EWS china clay sidings to the left of the station platform are now overgrown and rusty. View west towards Par on 15 June.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29564.jpg "Lostwithiel")
![Cross Country Voyager 220025 calls at Liskeard on a service from Penzance. This view from the station footbridge looks west towards Moorswater viaduct and shows some of the lower quadrant semaphores that still control all movements in the station.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29653.jpg "Liskeard")
![The Newquay train emerges from the stabling siding into Platform 3 at Par. 150248 is just passing the signalbox and lower quadrant semaphores. Trains from this platform can either turn right towards St Blazey and Newquay or left to access the main line. View west towards St. Austell.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2010]](/images/31000/31841.jpg "Par")
![A 125 heads west about half way between Saint Germans and Menheniot. West is to the right in this aerial view.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/10/2010]](/images/31000/31295.jpg "Saint Germans")
![A westbound 125 eases over the Royal Albert Bridge which is currently being prepared for repainting by the addition of a complex network of lightweight scaffolding.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 16/09/2011]](/images/35000/35702.jpg "Royal Albert Bridge")
![150101 pauses at Saltash en route to Liskeard on 16 September. The view is from the new(ish) footway on the Tamar Bridge and the girders seen here are the west end of the Royal Albert Bridge.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 16/09/2011]](/images/35000/35910.jpg "Saltash")
![The Royal Albert Bridge viewed at night from the Saltash end of the parallel road bridge.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 16/09/2011]](/images/46000/46365.jpg "Royal Albert Bridge")
![That loop of welded steel is supposed to look like part of a ship. It spans three piers of the deckless viaduct which lies West of Plymouth station and once carried a branch line down to the docks.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 10/02/2013]](/images/42000/42147.jpg "Plymouth")
![There's an up HST on the left, the Pathfinder 'Hullaba-Looe' on the right, and the Looe line around the corner. What does the station layout here at Liskeard remind me of? [see image 42314]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 10/02/2013]](/images/42000/42420.jpg "Liskeard")
![A colourful train for Newquay about to switch between main line and branch line platforms at Par station on 8 July 2014 following its arrival from Penzance.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 08/07/2014]](/images/47000/47916.jpg "Par")
![The branch train for Newquay at Par station on 8 July 2014 after switching platforms. [See image 47916]<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 08/07/2014]](/images/47000/47938.jpg "Par")
![The 16.58 to London Paddington (stopping at most stations to Taunton, then Reading) arrives at St. Austell on 28th November.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/11/2014]](/images/49000/49670.jpg "St. Austell")
![A 153 and a 150 prepare to set off from St Austell for Penzance together on 28 November 2014. Both the old and new footbridges are visible in this view.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/11/2014]](/images/49000/49728.jpg "St Austell")
![Due to an engineering possession, services between Liskeard and Plymouth were bustituted on 29 November. The driver has already changed the destination indicator before drawing forward and reversing towards Penzance. [see image 29653 for a similar view in daylight]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49614.jpg "Liskeard")
![Arrival of the 11.47 to Penzance at Bodmin Parkway on 29 November 2014 - a large train for a small station; which, commendably, has an hourly bus to Padstow, some 50 years after the latter station closed. The lie of the land, and the use of the up platform for Bodmin and Wenford trains, reminds me of Norchard in the Forest of Dean [see image 31050]. The signal box just visible on the right is now used as a cafe.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49656.jpg "Bodmin Parkway")
![Now that's what I call a wheel. It is fitted to a Shark brake van (DB993895 - formerly allocated to Tavistock Junction), also useable as a ballast plough - but looks as though it was formerly fitted to a schooner. [See image 38655]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49787.jpg "Bodmin Parkway")
![It's not every day that you see a Sprinter from the verandah of a brake van. Two eras meet at Bodmin Parkway on 29 November 2014, courtesy of the Branch Line Society.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49800.jpg "Bodmin Parkway")
![Par-ting shot: down and up (nearest) HSTs meet at Par on 29 November. The signal box on the platform is reminiscent of Abercynon [see image 31939], but is still in use. The branch to Newquay is visible on the right.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49804.jpg "Par")
![The Network Rail Track Rationalization Team has obviously not visited St Austell, with a crossover on the left, and at least two sidings by the car park on the right. View towards Penzance on 29 November.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49847.jpg "St Austell")
![Another view of the former signalbox at Bodmin Parkway in November 2014. Its use as a cafe provides a useful facility and 'recycles' a building with plenty of life left. Notice the modern station building on the right. [a considerable improvement on that seen in image 36651] The station staff were helpful and efficient, and excited to see a surge in visitors as the Branch Line Society ran a special down the Bodmin and Wenford Railway.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/11/2014]](/images/50000/50091.jpg "Bodmin Parkway")
![Old and new at St. Austell: the mothballed signal box can just be seen over the young lady's shoulder as an up HST pulls in on 29th November. The new footbridge is almost ready for use.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/11/2014]](/images/50000/50151.jpg "St. Austell")
![A Falmouth Docks to Truro service waits at the northern end of Penryn station on 12 October 2015 to pass the southbound service. The passing loop is on the left but the southbound service stops behind the photographer at the same platform. <br><br>[John McIntyre 12/10/2015]](/images/52000/52999.jpg "Penryn")
![The end of the line from Truro at Falmouth Docks station on 12 October 2015. 150130, having just arrived, after a quick turn around makes its way back to Truro.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/10/2015]](/images/53000/53096.jpg "Falmouth Docks")
![A Penzance to Paddington HST arrives at Liskeard on 14 October 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 14/10/2015]](/images/52000/52991.jpg "Liskeard")
![Platform 3 at Liskeard, for services to Looe, is at right angles to the main line which is behind the photographer. This view looks north and 153305 will head north, curve 180 degrees to the right, under the mainline and then through 180 degrees to the right again to Combe Jct where it reverses to head south to Looe. Quite an operation to loose height.<br><br>[John McIntyre 14/10/2015]](/images/53000/53009.jpg "Liskeard")
![An HST to Penzance departs from platform 1 at Par while 153329 waits on platform 3 with a branchline service to Newquay on 14 October 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 14/10/2015]](/images/53000/53061.jpg "Par")
![On the left a Plymouth to Penzance stopping service departs from Truro while on the right in the bay platform the service to Falmouth Docks waits for the line west.<br><br>[John McIntyre 14/10/2015]](/images/53000/53063.jpg "Truro")
![A Truro to Falmouth Docks service calls at Falmouth Town station on 16 October 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 16/10/2015]](/images/53000/53022.jpg "Falmouth Town")
![The shuttle service to St Ives departs from the branch platform at St Erth on 16 October 2015. The mainline on the left leads to Penzance.<br><br>[John McIntyre 16/10/2015]](/images/53000/53030.jpg "St Erth")
![A Penzance to Plymouth stopping service arrives at St Erth on 16 October 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 16/10/2015]](/images/53000/53080.jpg "St Erth")
![A Penzance to London HST service arrives at Par on 24th June 2017. The Newquay branch diverges away to the right. <br>
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<br><br>[Graeme Blair 24/06/2017]](/images/63000/63158.jpg "Par")
