Parkandillack Branch 1
Credits, Many thanks to all contributors - please see a list on the home page.
If you do not see what you want try :-
Go to the Links page and select Cornwall Centre, then on their home page select 'Cornwall Image Bank'. There is a selection of photographs by John Vaughan, Arthur Trevan, George Ellis and others.
You could always visit the Cornwall Centre at Alma Place, Redruth. Very near the station.
You could always visit the Cornwall Centre at Alma Place, Redruth. Very near the station.
Gradient profile - Parkandillack branch. From an old working timetable courtesy Roger Winnen
N.B Click on picture to obtain an enlargement.
Token from the David Hibberd Collection
Token from the David Hibberd Collection
A trip up the Parkandillack branch takes one into an almost 'lunar landscape. Views taken from the Branch Line Society Railtour.
Lanjeth Crossing
Near High St
Drinnick Mill / Nanpean Wharf
Courtesy The Paddy Bradley Collection.
As usual, a very quick and much appreciated response from our Rangoon Correspondent
Dear Keith,
The gent in the centre (wearing frock coat) is the stationmaster. Drinnick Mill had a stationmaster until the 1950s.
Until 1966, there was a goods office and a signal box.
Trains operated both north and south out of Drinnick until 1911, when the ' Carpella break' occurred. The GWR were in dispute with the local clay company about mineral rights beneath the railway. The high court found for the clay company, so the line was severed south of Drinnick for 12 years or so. During this time, new signal boxes were opened at Parkandillack and Kernick because the bulk of the clay was going north to St Dennis.
The engine looks like an 850 class: it will have been shedded at St Blazey. There was an engine shed at Burngullow until about 1906.
We are, of course, in the pre- clay hood era; china clay was normally transported in barrels at this time.
Roy Many thanks Roy
Dear Keith,
The gent in the centre (wearing frock coat) is the stationmaster. Drinnick Mill had a stationmaster until the 1950s.
Until 1966, there was a goods office and a signal box.
Trains operated both north and south out of Drinnick until 1911, when the ' Carpella break' occurred. The GWR were in dispute with the local clay company about mineral rights beneath the railway. The high court found for the clay company, so the line was severed south of Drinnick for 12 years or so. During this time, new signal boxes were opened at Parkandillack and Kernick because the bulk of the clay was going north to St Dennis.
The engine looks like an 850 class: it will have been shedded at St Blazey. There was an engine shed at Burngullow until about 1906.
We are, of course, in the pre- clay hood era; china clay was normally transported in barrels at this time.
Roy Many thanks Roy
Goonvean/Restowrack
Treviscoe
Parkandillack
