Cornwall  Railway  Society
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  • LATEST INPUT , NEWS & OLD PICTURES ETC.
  • FEATURES, MAIN INDEX & OUTDOOR EVENTS REPORTS.
  • CORNWALL GALLERIES
  • DEVON GALLERIES
  • North & East of TAUNTON & HONITON
  • Military and Industrial Tramways & Light Railways
  • Pleasure Tramways & Light Railways
  • RAILTOURS, AERIAL VIEWS ,MISCELLANEOUS
  • CORNISH RAILWAYS WAR DIARY
  • LOCAL YOUTUBE
  • Historical Outdoor Events INDEX
  • ARCHITECTURE
  • INDEX TO ARTICLES WRITTEN BY COLIN BURGES
  • ARTICLES SECTION.
  • ENGINEERING PLANT DIARY
  • News reports Jan to Aug 2012
  • Links
  • MAPS, PHOTOS, AERIAL VIEWS
  • Official Documents available to the General Public
  • Public notices and posters collection

Preserved  Railways

Avon Valley Railway

Avon Valley Railway
Bridgwater Branch S & D. 
http://www.geocities.ws/dbown100/BawdripHalt.htm ​

Bodmin & Wenford Railway

Bodmin & Wenford Railway

Dean Forest Railway

Dean Forest Railway

Helston Railway

Helston Railway Preservation Society

Plym Valley Railway

Plym Valley Railway
Sandford and Banwell Railway Heritage Centre 
sandfordstation.co.uk

Shillingstone Railway project

Shillingstone station

South Devon Railway

South Devon Railway

Swanage Railway

Swanage Railway
Tarka Valley Railway   http://www.tarkavalleyrailway.co.uk

West Somerset Railway

West Somerset Railway
Cornwall Centre

Cornwall Centre,  Redruth.  For images and information about Cornish Railways 

Cornwall Centre, Cornish Studies

Model Railways

Falmouth Society of Railway Modellers

Falmouth Society of Railway Modellers

Contemporary  Railways

National Rail

National Rail enquiries page

Railway  Discussion & Gallery  Websites

The Nigel Tregoning Collection of Railway Photographs (Flickr)

The Nigel Tregoning Collection

The Andrew Cavill Collection of Railway Photographs 

Andrew Cavill Collection of Railway Photographs
The Eric Curnow Collection  -
​Covers the Penzance and Long Rock areas between 1969 and 1977.  This can be can evaluated at https://curnowcollection.wordpress.com/  
Combe Rail.
Combe Rail is a charity dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Ilfracombe line. "Devon Belle" is our quarterly e-newsletter, and is distributed free to Combe Rail members. If you're interested, you can download back issues here: http://www.combe-rail.org.uk/newsletter/
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The David Hey collection of photographs, histories and masses of information by many authors.

www.davidheyscollection.com

Plymouth Railway Circle

Plymouth Railway Circle

Craig Munday Gallery and railway models

Craig Munday Gallery and Railway Models

Steve Marshall  Globe Videos

Steve Marshall Globe Videos

On Track Plant

On Track 
Plant
Rail West Chris Osment  West Country Railway Archives
 
www.railwest.org.uk 

'Friends of Penmere Station', a voluntary group who have attended/restored the station for the last twenty one years?  The link for our webpage is:
 
http://falmouthalive.org.uk/pg/groups/475/friends-of-penmere-station/   

  Also to go to the Facebook page on Penmere Station please click below :- 


https://www.facebook.com/FacebookUK?brand_redir=1#!/friendsofpenmere?pnref=lhc

The York Collection - many Cornwall pictures. 
 http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Sellick+collection&objid=1997-7219_RJS_CL_2

The Mike Morant Collections
Mikes Home Page at https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/ or just the British part of the site at https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railways-British-Isles 
Signalling Record Society
 
www.s-r-s.org.uk
AERIAL  VIEWS  - country wide      http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk
 
Loads of old aerial pics, black and white, some go back to 1920s etc. Great ones of Plymouth, Tavistock (particularly good one of Tavistock Sth) and many other interesting places, loads of railway stuff.
 
​Railway Posters   http://www.railwaystation.org/postersBR.html contains many interesting posters
 
and this one which is particularly useful as you can go into street view on the old maps and compare what it looks like now http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html

A History of Trolleys, Light Rails, Street Cars and Subways   
                                                   Recommended by Kerri and Michelle Bass   
https://www.partsgeek.com/mmparts/a_history_of_trolleys_light_rails_street_cars_and_subways.html ​  
Cornwall Railways Video
Martin Baker has kindly drawn our attention to an excellent 3 hour video of the railways of Cornwall before the introduction of the class 66's see also the TPO  Please click below
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj2UxPqQvF8&t=1s
Bodmin North to Padstow - Youtube footage.   
 
https://youtu.be/t-HIsTyqWDo
 
​Railway Maps - old OS maps  This is particularly useful as you can go into street view on the old maps and compare what it looks like now http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html

​Railway Pictures  -  Kevin Jones - Steam Index      ​www.steamindex.com/
Masses of Railway Pictures - highly recommended don’t know if you are aware of this website but I came across it today :

http://www.davidheyscollection.com/index.htm

You may need several days, if not months, to digest everything but is full of interesting facts and thousands of photographs.
If you haven’t seen it before, I’ll leave you to have a browse.

Regards, Martin Scane.