Roskear Branch
Andy Kirkham
Roskear branch - Foundry Road Crossing. Copyright Andy KIrkham. The date was April 16 1974. With apologies to Andy for an incorrect attribution before.
St Agnes
Andrew Triggs
Andrew Triggs
A shunter which has stood outside St Agnes station for many years is soon to get what it deserves - restoration. The loco is to be moved some 12 miles, as the crow flies, to Poldark Mining Museum near Helston. The loco is a Hibberd 'Planet diesel mechanical chain driven shunter supplied to the Royal Navy at Devonport Dockyard in March 1956 being allocated the yard number 5200. It has a 5' 6" wheelbase to enable it to negotiate the sharp curves of the dockyards system. In total 33 of these standard gauge diesel locomotives with Fodens engines were purchased by the Admiralty for its establishments all over Britain. After a collision with a runaway wagon from Keyham Junction on 4th June 1982, pushing it 109 feet before stopping the engine was declared beyond repair and sold to the Cornwall Railway Museum at Zelah where it went on 6th April 1983. However in April 1987 it moved once more to a site outside of St Agnes Station on the former Chacewater-Newquay Branch.
Some of this information is taken from Devonport Dockyard Railway book by courtesy of Paul Burkhalter.
Some of this information is taken from Devonport Dockyard Railway book by courtesy of Paul Burkhalter.
St Agnes station 1988 Copyright Andrew Triggs
St Agnes The shunter in a view taken on the 4th February 2017. The rails have buckled as the loco sinks into the ballast. Copyright Keith Jenkin
The station 24 years after closure. A view from the 'shunter site' taken in 1988. Copyright Andrew Triggs
Penzance
Mike Hitchens
Mike Hitchens
47613 North Star awaits departure from Platform 4 at Penzance, Mike Hichens Collection
Yeovil Pen Mill
John Cornelius
John Cornelius
Copyright John Cornelius