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| Hugh Ballantyne |
British Railways Past And Present No. 17: Cornwall David Mitchell (Past & Present Publishing 1993) 978-1858950013 |
Calstock |
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| Peter Gray |
British Railways Past And Present No. 17: Cornwall David Mitchell (Past & Present Publishing 1993) 978-1858950013 |
Gunnislake |
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| Peter Hay |
Steaming Through Cornwall by Peter Hay (Middleton Press 1994) 978-1873793305 |
Callington |
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In the last years of steam on the Callington branch, power was provided by LMS-type 2-6-2 tanks, quite unlike the GWT variety. This is the scene at Callington upon arrival of the 5.23pm from Bere Alston on 18th August 1959. The passenger line ended at the buffer stops with no run-round facility, so either the empty train had to be backed out or another engine attached at the far end. |
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There was no turntable at Callington either, so tank engines were normally used on the branch. Callington station was actually at a place called Kelly Bray, an uphill mile or more from the town. No. 41315 is backing the 6.20pm to Bere Alston into the platform for loading, beside a minute signal box and a wooden post signal which was a relic of the Plymouth, Devonport & South Western Junction Railway. |
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| Calstock |
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Far better weather prevailed at Calstock when the 6.20pm from Callington called, with one SR corridor composite brake accompanying two pre-Grouping coaches and providing the guard's accomodation. The SR also appears in the shape of totem signs and an early concrete running in board. |
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Watched by a local resident, the Callington branch train leaves Cornwall by the Calstock viaduct over the Tamar, and heads for Bere Alston in glorious Devon. |
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| Chilsworthy |
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There is a passenger, and platform lighting at Chilsworthy as the 2-6-2 tank hauling LSWR and SECR coaches calls with the teatime train from Bere Alston. There were mines here too, down in the valley of Tamar on the left, with fabulous Devon Great Consols beneath the trees in the distance. |
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| Gunnislake |
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The approach to Gunnislake's island platform was from a subway beneath the tracks at the Calstock end of the station. The SR prescense was more obvious here than elsewhere on the line, with the standard pattern of station equipment like lamposts and totem signs. Gunnislake too was once surrounded indeed, undermined - with mineral workings. |
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Still looking towards Calstock but from the other end of the platform, we can see the original PDSWJR buildings of 1908 still very much in use in 1959. Goods sidings actively employed flank the passenger lines, on one side accomodating a standard SR brake van in the light grey livery used for stock not fitted with the vaccum brake. |
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Brake power, rather than haulage, was the need of the goods train approaching the steep gradient from Gunnislake down to Calstock. The ECMR had an incline but the standard gauge avoided it by a 2 3/4 mile roundabout route. The engines in the downpour are O2 class no. 30193 and 2-6-2 tank no. 41315. |
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| Latchley |
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The wayside stations on the branch preserved their "light railway" air until the end. Latchley started life as Cox's Park depot and once, like Luckett, had a siding and goods shed on the right. By 1959 it didn't even merit gates on the level crossing, cattle grids keeping livestock, but not photographers, of the track. |
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| Luckett |
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The line at Luckett (previously Monk's Corner and later Stoke Climsland) shirted the north side of Kit Hill, with tin and copper mines above and below the railway. They and others nearby led to the building of the narrow gauge East Cornwall Minerals Railway in 1872 which was re-born, standard gauge, in 1908. By 1959 mineral traffic and the mines were long in the past. |
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| Richard C Riley |
British Railways Past And Present No. 17: Cornwall David Mitchell (Past & Present Publishing 1993) 978-1858950013 |
Latchley |
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| Ron Lumber |
British Railways Past And Present No. 17: Cornwall David Mitchell (Past & Present Publishing 1993) 978-1858950013 |
Callington |
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Callington: From Luckett to the terminus the line ran along the edges of Kit Hill and some three-quarters of a mile beyond the former station were Kit Hill Sidings. From these a narrow gauge railway ran up to quarries on the hillside. Somewhat typically the end of the branch was actually in Kelly Bray, about a mile north of Callington and the ECMR depot has carried that name. The station is pictured on 7 July 1958 as 'O2' No 30192 runs around after arriving with the 3.15pm from Bere Alston; it was necessary to back a train out of the platform to complete this manoeuvre. Just visable on the left is the timber-built two-road engine shed, a sub-shed to Plymouth Friary. Behind the photographer was an overall roof which covered the platform and adjacent track. |
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| T. B. Owen |
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Callington Branch |
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| Terry Gough |
British Railways Past And Present No. 17: Cornwall David Mitchell (Past & Present Publishing 1993) 978-1858950013 |
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| Chilsworthy |
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| Gunnislake |
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| Luckett |
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| Wessex Collection |
Tavistock To Plymouth Including The Callington Branch (Southern Main Lines) by Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith (Middleton Press 1996) 978-1873793886 |
Callington |
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The overall roof is thought to predate the gauge conversion, and that the iron-clad offices seen in picture no. 58 were added by Stephens. The lean-to evident in picture 59 had gone by the 1950s. The goods shed is in the background; a 3-ton capacity crane was available therein and there was another in the yard. |
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A second view from March 1966 includes the 80ft high chimney of Kit Hill Consols tin mine. There was a goods shed and extensive accomodation for animal feedstuffs. The 1916 cattle dock can be seen between the two buildings. Freight and passenger services were both withdrawn on 5th November 1966. The land now forms the Beeching Way Industrial Park. |
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